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Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Liberation of Guam written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cyril J. O'Brien
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Liberation: Marines in the Recapture of Guam written by Cyril J. O'Brien and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Liberation: Marines in the Recapture of Guam" by Cyril J. O'Brien. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Cyril J. O'Brien
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788135376
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Liberation written by Cyril J. O'Brien and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of rare and priceless manuscripts from museums around the world, this survey features nearly 200 photographic facsimiles that depict ancestors of the modern book. Contributions from numerous people and cultures include ancient sources of Greece and Rome, central and southern Asia, Africa, pre-Columbian America, the Far East, and Europe.
Author : Harry A. Gailey
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Liberation of Guam, 21 July-10 August 1944 written by Harry A. Gailey and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Wrinn
Publisher : Storyteller Books, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Recapture of Guam written by Daniel Wrinn and published by Storyteller Books, LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping insight about the liberation of Guam." - Reviewer Guam's Japanese garrison fought practically to the last man. By invading Guam, US forces were not only getting access to a fine harbor and a number of airfields to use in future operations but were also liberating a US territory captured by the Japanese in 1941. The attack on Guam was intended to begin only days after the landings on Saipan but was postponed for a month. US forces used the delay to make the preliminary bombardment and air attacks extremely thorough and to ensure that offshore obstacles to landing craft were cleared efficiently. The landing force included both Marine and Army units from General Geiger's III Amphibious Corps, in all 55,000 strong. General Takashina commanded 18,000 defenders, who had built a typically elaborate network of bunkers, artillery emplacements, and other fortifications. This narrative recounts the story of the liberation of Guam in vivid, gritty detail. Explore the fascinating feats of strategy, planning, and bravery, handing the Allies what would eventually become a victory over the Pacific Theater and an end to Imperialist Japanese expansion.
Author : Don A. Farrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Pictorial History of Guam written by Don A. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472800117
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Guam 1941 & 1944 written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Guam was the first Allied territory lost to the Japanese onslaught in 1941. On 10 December 5,000 Japanese troops landed on Guam, defended by less than 500 US and Guamanian troops, the outcome was beyond doubt. On 21 July 1944 America returned. In a risky operation, the two US landing forces came ashore seven miles apart and it was a week before the beachheads linked up. Only the battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa would cost the Americans more men than the landings on Guam and Saipan, which immediately preceded the Guam operation. In this book Gordon Rottman details the bitter 26-day struggle for this key Pacific island.
Author : Roger Mansell
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511236
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Captured written by Roger Mansell and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years before the outbreak of the war in the Pacific, Guam was a paradise for the Navy, Marine and civilian employees of Pan American Airways, who found themselves stationed on the island. However their apprehension about the fate of the island increased as they anticipated a Japanese attack in the fall of 1941. Shortly after attack on Pearl Harbor, Guam was bombed and the Japanese invasion soon followed. Since Guam was not heavily fortified it soon fell to the invading Japanese. In the takeover of the island, the Japanese practiced a swift brutality against the captive Americans as well as native population, and then immediately removed the American military and civilian personnel to Japan. Only a lucky few escaped, including five Navy nurses and dependent Ruby Hellmers and her baby Charlene, who were transported back to America aboard the Swedish ship Gripsholm in mid-1942. In Captured, Mansell tells the story of the captives from Guam, whose story until now has largely been forgotten. Drawing upon interviews with survivors, diaries and archival records, Mansell documents the movements of American military and civilian men as they went from one Japanese POW camp to another, slowly starving as they performed slave labor for Japanese companies. Meanwhile, he describes the brutal horrors suffered by Guamian natives during Japan’s occupation of the island, especially as the Japanese prepared for American forces to re-take this U.S. possession in 1945. Moving stories of liberation, transportation home, and the aftermath of these horrific experiences are narrated as the book draws to a close. Mansell concludes that America’s lack of military preparation, disbelief in Japan’s ambitions in the Pacific, and focus on Europe all contributed to the captivity of more than three years of suffering for the forgotten Americans from Guam as the Pacific War raged around them. Captured was completed by historian Linda Goetz Holmes after the death of Roger Mansell.
Author : Cyril J. O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Liberation written by Cyril J. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Blaz
Publisher : Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center
ISBN 13 : 9780966523836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Bisita Guam written by Ben Blaz and published by Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the people of Guam, World War II divided their modern history into three distinct periods: ante de i guerra, durante i guerra, and despues de i guerra--before the war, during the war, and after the war. Ben Blaz was thirteen years old when the Japanese invaded, and Bisita Guam is his story. illus.
Author : Cyril O'Brien
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781490436319
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Liberation: Marines in the Recapture of Guam written by Cyril O'Brien and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book is about the Liberation of Guam, in particular, Marines involved in the Recapture of Guam.
Author : James M. Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258808532
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Guam written by James M. Burns and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Stille
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472842812
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Leyte Gulf 1944 (1) written by Mark Stille and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1944, the US prepared to invade the Philippines to cut Japan off from its resource areas in Southeast Asia. This is the first in a two-part study of the October 23-26 Battle of Leyte Gulf, which resulted in a decisive defeat for the Japanese.
Author : Alexander Nicoll
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 9781036105648
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Battle of Guam 1944 written by Alexander Nicoll and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 16.00 hours on 27 July 1944, the Stars and Stripes were raised over the central Pacific island of Guam. The symbolism of this moment was not lost on the officers and men who saluted the raising of Old Glory. This was because the first American flag to be pulled down by the Japanese in the Second World War was in Guam, on 10 December 1941, just three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Before the war three of the four main Mariana Islands - Saipan, Tinian and Rota - had substantial Japanese populations and were considered part of the Japanese empire. On the other hand, the largest island of the group, Guam, had been under American administration since the end of the nineteenth century, and its inhabitants saw themselves as Americans. Their liberation would be a 'psychological high point' in the long war against Imperial Japan for the people of the United States. The re-capture of Guam was more than just the recovery of lost territory. It was an essential element of Operation Forager, the US offensive to take the Mariana and Palau islands with the aim of neutralizing Japanese bases in the central Pacific and supporting the Allied drive to retake the Philippines. There was another factor which possibly was of even more significance. Prototypes of the new Boeing B-29 Superfortress were already being flown. The B-29 had an operational range of 3,500 miles, putting the Japanese Home Islands, and even Tokyo itself, well within striking distance of the Marianas. It would be from the Marianas that the strategic bombing campaign which helped bring Japan to its knees in 1945 would be carried out. The US assault upon the Marianas began with the attacks upon Saipan and Tinian. Then, on 21 July 1944, men of the III Marine Amphibious Corps landed on Guam after the longest preparatory bombardment of the war in the Pacific. For the next twenty days the Marines and the US Army's 77th Division struggled through dense undergrowth and jungle and over rugged, wooded mountains to eliminate an enemy determined to fight to the death - and die they did. Roasted alive by flamethrowers in dugouts and caves, blasted out of ill-prepared pillboxes by artillery and mowed down by the score in senseless, tactically naïve headlong charges, almost the entire 20,000 strong Japanese garrison was killed. In the savage struggle throughout the island, American casualties were in excess of 6,000 and many hundreds of civilians were also killed in the fighting. But, after more than two-and-a-half years of Japanese occupation, honor was finally restored in the Central Pacific.
Author : Guam. Liberation Day Committee. Committee on Program and Promotions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Liberation 1958 written by Guam. Liberation Day Committee. Committee on Program and Promotions and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jillette Leon-Guerrero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996821988
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Coming of Age in War-Torn Guam written by Jillette Leon-Guerrero and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of a twelve year-old boy who lived through the invasion and occupation of the Japanese forces on Guam during WWII.
Author : John C. Chapin
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan written by John C. Chapin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Breaching the Marianas" by John C. Chapin is a book about the WWII campaigns and Marine Corps history. The book gives a detailed account of what happened on the Mariana Islands of Saipan during the war. Excerpt: "Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan by Captain John C. Chapin, USMCR (Ret) It was a brutal day. At first light on 15 June 1944, the Navy fire support ships of the task force lying off Saipan Island increased their previous days' preparatory fires involving all calibers of weapons. At 0542, Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner ordered, "Land the landing force." Around 0700, the landing ships, tank (LSTs) moved to within approximately 1,250 yards behind the line of departure. Troops in the LSTs began debarking from them in landing vehicles, tracked (LVTs). Control vessels containing Navy and Marine personnel with their radio gear took their positions displaying flags indicating which beach approaches they controlled."
