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Author : L. C. Kukral
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Marines in the Marshalls written by L. C. Kukral and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Hammel
Publisher : Crestline Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785830733
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)
Download or read book U.S. Marines in WWII written by Eric Hammel and published by Crestline Books. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 20, 1943, the 2d Marine Division hit the beach on tiny Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, expecting that its defenses had been "pounded into coral dust" by naval and air bombardment. They found instead that the Japanese had survived and held largely intact defenses. Three days of intense fighting secured the island at the cost of one thousand dead Marines and more than two thousand wounded. By early 1944 the Americans' westward drive across the Pacific required airfields in the Marshall Islands at Kwajalein and Eniwetok atolls. In late January, the 4th Marine Division and U.S. Army troops wrenched control of Kwajalein Atoll in three days of fighting. Then, beginning on February 18, the 22d Marine Regiment landed on three islands in Eniwetok Atoll. The newly rebuilt airfields would support future operations in the Mariana Islands as the Marines continued their island-hopping campaign to victory in the Pacific. Military historian Eric Hammel has delved deeply into the government photo archives and discovered a treasure-trove of rare, many never-before-published combat photos taken during these campaigns, unearthing hundreds of images.
Author : Hans Schmidt
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146259
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Maverick Marine written by Hans Schmidt and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler won renown as a Marine battlefield hero, campaigning in most of America's foreign military expeditions from 1898 to the late 1920s. He became the leading national advocate for paramilitary police reform. Upon his retirement, however, he renounced war and imperialism and devoted his energy and prestige to various dissident and leftist political causes.
Author : Dr. Jack Shulimson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787200833
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965 written by Dr. Jack Shulimson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War. This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat units were committed to the conflict. The narrative traces the landing of the nearly 5,000-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and its transformation into the ΙII Marine Amphibious Force, which by the end of the year contained over 38,000 Marines. During this period, the Marines established three enclaves in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, and their mission expanded from defense of the Da Nang Airbase to a balanced strategy involving base defense, offensive operations, and pacification. This volume continues to treat the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese armed forces but in less detail than its predecessor volume, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1964; The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era.
Author : Aaron B. O'Connell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674067444
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Underdogs written by Aaron B. O'Connell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America’s smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps’ uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Along with unapologetic self-promotion, a strong sense of identity has enabled the Corps to exert a powerful influence on American politics and culture. Aaron O’Connell focuses on the period from World War II to Vietnam, when the Marine Corps transformed itself from America’s least respected to its most elite armed force. He describes how the distinctive Marine culture played a role in this ascendancy. Venerating sacrifice and suffering, privileging the collective over the individual, Corps culture was saturated with romantic and religious overtones that had enormous marketing potential in a postwar America energized by new global responsibilities. Capitalizing on this, the Marines curried the favor of the nation’s best reporters, befriended publishers, courted Hollywood and Congress, and built a public relations infrastructure that would eventually brand it as the most prestigious military service in America. But the Corps’ triumphs did not come without costs, and O’Connell writes of those, too, including a culture of violence that sometimes spread beyond the battlefield. And as he considers how the Corps’ interventions in American politics have ushered in a more militarized approach to national security, O’Connell questions its sustainability.
Author : S.L.A. "Slam" Marshall
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839741333
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Men Against Fire written by S.L.A. "Slam" Marshall and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men Against Fire, first published in 1947 (and updated in 1961), is an in-depth analysis of military leadership and infantry tactics, with numerous recommendations to improve the effectiveness of ground troops in combat situations. The psychology of combat (e.g., chapters “Why Men Fight” and “Men Under Fire”) is also examined by Marshall, himself a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. S.L.A. "Slam" Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startled the military and civilian world in 1947 by announcing that, in an average infantry company, no more than one in four soldiers actually fired their weapons while in contact with the enemy. His contention was based on interviews he conducted immediately after combat in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II.
Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124099
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Generals written by Thomas E. Ricks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell. While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails.
Author : John Archer Lejeune
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892010479
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Reminiscences of a Marine written by John Archer Lejeune and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Lieutenant Colonel R.D. Heinl Jr. USMC
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782892818
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Marines In World War II - The Marshalls: Increasing The Tempo [Illustrated Edition] written by Lieutenant Colonel R.D. Heinl Jr. USMC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the Marines spearheading the thrust through the Japanese outer ring of defences and recounts the brutal and important island-hopping Pacific campaign at its most gripping following the bloodbath at Tarawa. Contains 97 photos and 16 maps and charts. “As 1943 drew to a close, Marines had retaken Tarawa and portions of the Solomons from the Japanese invader, but the formidable enemy bases studding the vast Pacific, bases which had been built during the preceding 25 years, were as yet untouched by our amphibious forces. In early 1944 the first penetration of this prewar enemy territory was accomplished with the assault and occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls in the Marshall Islands. These were quickly followed by the seizure of Eniwetok Atoll. The major role in these over-all operations was undertaken by Marine units working in close coordination with elements of the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard. That they acquitted themselves with distinction is reflected in the rapidity with which they accomplished their missions. Operations in the Marshall Islands clearly indicated that Japanese bases in the Central Pacific could be by-passed. The way was now open for the neutralization of Truk and the assault on the Marianas, the next great step in the drive toward Japan.”-LEMUEL C. SHEPHERD, JR., GENERAL, U. S. MARINE CORPS, COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS
Author : Jeter A. Isely
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787200957
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The U.S. Marines And Amphibious War written by Jeter A. Isely and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility of amphibious warfare....Relentlessly accurate and impartial.”—N.Y. Times Originally published in 1951, this book is a widely regarded classic on US Marine amphibious doctrine and operations employed in the Pacific during the Second World War. The authors describe in detail the development of the theoretical aspects of amphibious assault in the inter-war period, but devote the vast majority of the narrative to the various landings and their core strategies, using Japanese documents “to sketch in the background of military decisions made by the enemy.” A must for those who wish to understand the American war against Japan.
Author : United States. Marine Corps
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Marshalls: Increasing the Tempo written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Marine Corps
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book A Chronology of the United States Marine Corps written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen R. Taaffe
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619429
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Marshall and His Generals written by Stephen R. Taaffe and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II, faced the daunting task not only of overseeing two theaters of a global conflict but also of selecting the best generals to carry out American grand strategy. Marshall and His Generals is the first and only book to focus entirely on that selection process and the performances, both stellar and disappointing, that followed from it. Stephen Taaffe chronicles and critiques the background, character, achievements, and failures of the more than three dozen general officers chosen for top combat group commands—from commanders like Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur to some nearly forgotten. Taaffe explores how and why Marshall selected the Army’s commanders. Among his chief criteria were character (including “unselfish and devoted purpose”), education, (whether at West Point, Fort Leavenworth, or the Army War College), and striking a balance between experience and relative youth in a war that required both wisdom and great physical stamina. As the war unfolded, Marshall also factored into his calculations the combat leadership his generals demonstrated and the opinions of his theater commanders. Taaffe brings into sharp focus the likes of Eisenhower, MacArthur, George Patton, Omar Bradley, Walter Krueger, Robert Eichelberger, Courtney Hodges, Lucian Truscott, J. Lawton Collins, Alexander “Sandy” Patch, Troy Middleton, Matthew Ridgeway, Mark Clark, and twenty-five other generals who served in the conflict. He describes their leadership and decision-making processes and provides miniature biographies and personality sketches of these men drawn from their personal papers, official records, and reflections of fellow officers. Delving deeper than other studies, this path-breaking work produces a seamless analysis of Marshall’s selection process of operational-level commanders. Taaffe also critiques the performance of these generals during the war and reveals the extent to which their actions served as stepping stones to advancement. Ambitious in scope and filled with sharp insights, Marshall and His Generals is essential reading for anyone interested in World War II and military leadership more generally.
Author : Carolyn A. Tyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book A chronology of the United States Marine Corps written by Carolyn A. Tyson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric M. Hammel
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ISBN 13 : 1610607252
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
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Author : United States. Marine Corps
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Chronology of the United States Marine Corps: 1935-1946, by C.A. Tyson written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Chapin
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Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The 4th Marine Division in World War II written by John C. Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
