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Guadalcanal Legacy 50th Anniversary 1942 1992
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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.
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 Pacific Campaign in World War II by : William Bruce Johnson
Download or read book The Pacific Campaign in World War II written by William Bruce Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unpublished documents this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for the Pacific.
Book Synopsis Leaving Mac Behind by : Geoffrey Roecker
Download or read book Leaving Mac Behind written by Geoffrey Roecker and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My first telegram came Sep. 3 1942 that my son was missing in action. And the next telegram came Aug. 18 1943 that he was Declared Dead. Till this day I do not know what happened to him." Mrs. Ann M. Lyons, August 7, 1957. Between 1942 and 1944, nearly four hundred Marines virtually vanished in the jungles, seas, and skies of Guadalcanal. They were the victims of enemy ambushes and friendly fire, hard fighting and poor planning, their deaths witnessed by dozens or not at all. They were buried in field graves, in cemeteries as unknowns, or left where they fell. They were classified as "missing," as "not recovered," as "presumed dead." And in the years that followed, their families wondered at their fates and how an administrative decision could close the book on sons, brothers, and husbands without healing the wounds left by their absence. 'Leaving Mac Behind' reconstructs the lives, last moments, and legacies of some of these men. Original records, eyewitness accounts, and recent discoveries shed new light on the lost graves of Guadalcanal's missing Marines--and the ongoing efforts to bring them home.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the 78th National Convention of the American Legion by : American Legion. Annual National Convention
Download or read book Proceedings of the 78th National Convention of the American Legion written by American Legion. Annual National Convention and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Little Minnesota in World War II by : Jill A. Johnson
Download or read book Little Minnesota in World War II written by Jill A. Johnson and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, a total of 165 men from Minnesota’s smallest towns gave their lives for our country. Several were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, Silver Star, and Bronze Star. All received the award no one wanted: the Purple Heart. Most of their stories have never been told publicly. Little Minnesota in World War II, by Jill A. Johnson and Deane L. Johnson, honors these brave men from the smallest rural towns. From John Emery (who died December 7, 1941, on board the USS Arizona) to Herman Thelander (who was lost in the Bermuda Triangle, a mystery unsolved to this day), this unique book allows you to experience the war through personal accounts of the men and their families. With photos from the war, scans of actual letters, journal excerpts, and family memories, this one-of-a-kind book brings history to life and will make you feel prouder than ever to be Minnesotan.
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:
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 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The naval battles for Guadalcanal 1942 by : Mark Stille
Download or read book The naval battles for Guadalcanal 1942 written by Mark Stille and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific. The battle of Savo Island on the night of 9 August 1942, saw the Japanese inflict a sever defeat on the Allied force, driving them away from Guadalcanal and leaving the just-landed marines in a perilously exposed position. This was the start of a series of night battles that culminated in the First and Second battles of Guadalcanal, fought on the nights of 13 and 15 November. One further major naval action followed, the battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942, when the US Navy once again suffered a severe defeat, but this time it was too late to alter the course of the battle as the Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal in early February 1943.This title will detail the contrasting fortunes experienced by both sides over the intense course of naval battles around the island throughout the second half of 1942 that did so much to turn the tide in the Pacific.
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 Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 2184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Guadalcanal 1942–43 by : Mark Stille
Download or read book Guadalcanal 1942–43 written by Mark Stille and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using black and white contemporary photographs, illuminative maps and stunning battle scene illustrations, this comprehensive, detailed account completes the story of the Guadalcanal campaign - possibly the most important of the whole Pacific War. The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 – the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air, and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated the last of their forces from the island in 1943, it was clear that the tide of the war had turned. The inexorable Japanese advance and the myth of Japanese invincibility shattered. In this study of the campaign, Pacific War expert Mark Stille draws on both US and Japanese sources to give a balanced and comprehensive account of a crucial, brutal conflict. Analyzing the three Japanese attempts to retake the island in the face of ferocious American resistance, this book shows how the battle was won and lost, and how it affected the outcome of the Pacific War as a whole.
Book Synopsis Fire In The Sky by : Eric M Bergerud
Download or read book Fire In The Sky written by Eric M Bergerud and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the Pacific Air War in World War II draws on interviews with surviving veterans of all duties to paint a detailed look at the war in the sky.
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 . This book was released on 1944 with total page 90 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.
