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Book Synopsis Guadalcanal Legacy, 50th Anniversary, 1942-1992 by : Philip D. Birkitt
Download or read book Guadalcanal Legacy, 50th Anniversary, 1942-1992 written by Philip D. Birkitt and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist James Tissot compiled photographs of his work in three albums, which are reproduced in this book.
Download or read book Guadalcanal, 1942-1992 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guadalcanal, 1942-1992 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guadalcanal written by Richard B. Frank and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brilliant...an enormous work based on the most meticulous research.”—LA Times Book Review The battle at Guadalcanal—which began eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor—marked the first American offensive of World War II. It was a brutal six-month campaign that cost the lives of some 7,000 Americans and over 30,000 Japanese. This volume, ten years in the writing, recounts the full story of the critical campaign for Guadalcanal and is based on first-time translations of official Japanese Defense Agency accounts and recently declassified U.S. radio intelligence, Guadalcanal recreates the battle—on land, at sea, and in the air—as never before: it examines the feelings of both American and Japanese soldiers, the strategies and conflicts of their commanders, and the strengths and weaknesses of various fighting units.
Book Synopsis The Battle for Guadalcanal by : Samuel B. Griffith
Download or read book The Battle for Guadalcanal written by Samuel B. Griffith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterful pacing, vivid character sketches, and gripping action blend with rigorous historical detail in Samuel B. Griffith's The Battle for Guadalcanal. Launched on August 7, 1942, to protect Allied control of the strategic South Pacific islands, the Guadalcanal operation was the most costly American offensive of World War II in the history of the U.S. Navy up to that time. Griffith, who fought with Edson's Raiders on Guadalcanal, describes in gritty detail the vicious close-range fighting, the valiant defense of the Henderson Field airstrip, and the dramatic naval engagements that led, in February 1943, to an American victory. Drawing on American and Japanese sources, Griffith delineates the strategic decisions that shaped the conflict as well as the determination and endurance of combatants on both sides. A breathtaking narrative of military action anchored by a historian's objectivity, The Battle for Guadalcanal is a story of raw courage, desperate measures, and ultimate triumph.
Download or read book Guadalcanal written by John Miller, Jr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In publishing the history of combat operations the Department of the Army has three objectives. The first is to provide the Army itself with an accurate and timely account of its varied activities in directing, organizing, and employing its forces for the conduct of war-an account which will be available to the service schools and to individual members of the Armed Services who wish to extend their professional reading. The second objective is to offer the thoughtful citizen material for a better understanding of the basic problems of war and the manner in which these problems were met, thus augmenting his understanding of national security. The third objective is to accord a well-earned recognition to the devoted work and grim sacrifices of those who served. "The successes of the South Pacific Force," wrote Admiral Halsey in 1944, "were not the achievements of separate services or individuals but the result of whole-hearted subordination of self-interest by all in order that one successful 'fighting team' could be created."* The history of any South Pacific campaign must deal with this "fighting team," with all United States and Allied services. The victory on Guadalcanal can be understood only by an appreciation of the contribution of each service. No one service won the battle. The most decisive engagement of the campaign was the air and naval Battle of Guadalcanal in mid-November 1942, an engagement in which neither Army nor Marine Corps ground troops took any direct part. This volume attempts to show the contribution of all services to the first victory on the long road to Tokyo.
Book Synopsis Guadalcanal 1942 by : Joseph N. Mueller
Download or read book Guadalcanal 1942 written by Joseph N. Mueller and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard-pressed Army, Marine, and Navy units halted the enemy's apparently irresistible advance in its tracks on Guadalcanal. This book gives a gripping account the Allied forces' first victory over Imperial Japan.
Download or read book On the Canal written by Ore J. Marion and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straightforward, gripping tale from the Marines that stormed ashore on Guadalcanal in World War II. Told with humor and honesty in a no-holds-barred approach that only a Marine who was there could tell.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Guadalcanal, 11-15 November 1942 by : Colin G. Jameson
Download or read book The Battle of Guadalcanal, 11-15 November 1942 written by Colin G. Jameson and published by Naval Historical Center. This book was released on 1944 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guadalcanal written by Eric M. Hammel and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November of 1942, a crucial step toward America's victory over the Japanese during WWII. Blends detailed historical records with personal accounts of many of the officers and enlisted men involved, creating an engrossing narrative of the strategy and struggle as seen by both sides. Includes major new insights into the battles, including an account of the American forces' failure to effectively use their radar advantage. Originally published in 1988 as the concluding volume in the author's series of three independent books. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal by : James W. Grace
Download or read book The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal written by James W. Grace and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most ferocious naval battles of World War II, the night action off the coast of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942 - between U.S. cruisers and Japanese battleships fighting at point-blank range - claimed the lives of two American admirals. Though famous for tipping the scales in favor of the U.S. Navy in this critical area of the Pacific, this action has never before received the treatment provided in this book. Here, James Grace describes events from deck level and from both sides. He draws on a wealth of previously untapped primary sources, including the vivid personal recollections of some two hundred Japanese and American survivors of the fight. These eyewitness accounts lend immediacy to a work that will appeal to the general reader as well as to serious World War II buffs and historians.
Book Synopsis First Offensive by : Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
Download or read book First Offensive written by Henry I. Shaw, Jr. and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Commanding the Pacific by : Stephen Taaffe
Download or read book Commanding the Pacific written by Stephen Taaffe and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marine Corps covered itself in glory in World War II with victories over the Japanese in hard-fought battles such as Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Iwo Jima. While these battles are well known, those who led the Marines into them have remained obscure until now. In Commanding the Pacific: Marine Corps Generals in World War II, Stephen R. Taaffe analyzes the fifteen high-level Marine generals who led the Corps' six combat divisions and two corps in the conflict. He concludes that these leaders played an indispensable and unheralded role in organizing, training, and leading their men to victory. Taaffe insists there was nothing inevitable about the Marine Corps' success in World War II. The small pre-war size of the Corps meant that its commandant had to draw his combat leaders from a small pool of officers who often lacked the education of their Army and Navy counterparts. Indeed, there were fewer than one hundred Marine officers with the necessary rank, background, character, and skills for its high-level combat assignments. Moreover, the Army and Navy froze the Marines out of high-level strategic decisions and frequently impinged on Marine prerogatives. There were no Marines in the Joint Chiefs of Staff or at the head of the Pacific War's geographic theaters, so the Marines usually had little influence over the island targets selected for them. In addition to bureaucratic obstacles, constricted geography and vicious Japanese opposition limited opportunities for Marine generals to earn the kind of renown that Army and Navy commanders achieved elsewhere. In most of its battles on small Pacific War islands, Marine generals had neither the option nor inclination to engage in sophisticated tactics, but they instead relied in direct frontal assaults that resulted in heavy casualties. Such losses against targets of often questionable strategic value sometimes called into question the Marine Corps' doctrine, mission, and the quality of its combat generals. Despite these difficulties, Marine combat commanders repeatedly overcame challenges and fulfilled their missions. Their ability to do so does credit to the Corps and demonstrates that these generals deserve more attention from historians than they have so far received.
Book Synopsis The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Four: The Pacific, Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944 by :
Download or read book The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Four: The Pacific, Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Victory Fever on Guadalcanal by : William H. Bartsch
Download or read book Victory Fever on Guadalcanal written by William H. Bartsch and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use. The Japanese Army countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the command of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki. The attack that followed would prove to be the first of four attempts by the Japanese over six months to retake the airfield, resulting in some of the most vicious fighting of the Pacific War. During the initial battle on the night of August 20–21, 1942, Marines wiped out Ichiki’s men, who—imbued with “victory fever”—had expected a quick and easy victory. William H. Bartsch draws on correspondence, interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official war records, including those translated from Japanese sources, to offer an intensely human narrative of the failed attempt to recapture Guadalcanal’s vital airfield.
Book Synopsis The Guadalcanal Campaign by : United States. Marine Corps
Download or read book The Guadalcanal Campaign written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guadalcanal by : Charles R. Anderson
Download or read book Guadalcanal written by Charles R. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
