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Neptune's Inferno

Author : James D. Hornfischer
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553385127
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Neptune's Inferno written by James D. Hornfischer and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the . . . definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal . . . [James D.] Hornfischer deftly captures the essence of the most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war.”—San Antonio Express-News The Battle of Guadalcanal has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy’s sacrifice, James D. Hornfischer tells for the first time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers, cruisers, and battleships in the narrow, deadly waters of “Ironbottom Sound.” Here, in stunning cinematic detail, are the seven major naval actions that began in August 1942, a time when the war seemed unwinnable and America fought on a shoestring, with the outcome always in doubt. Working from new interviews with survivors, unpublished eyewitness accounts, and newly available documents, Hornfischer paints a vivid picture of the officers and enlisted men who opposed the Japanese in America’s hour of need. The first major work on this subject in almost two decades, Neptune’s Inferno does what all great battle narratives do: It tells the gripping human stories behind the momentous events and critical decisions that altered the course of history and shaped so many lives. Praise for Neptune’s Inferno “Vivid and engaging . . . extremely readable, comprehensive and thoroughly researched.”—Ronald Spector, The Wall Street Journal “Superlative storytelling . . . the masterwork on the long-neglected topic of World War II’s surface ship combat.”—Richard B. Frank, World War II “The author’s two previous World War II books . . . thrust him into the major leagues of American military history writers. Neptune’s Inferno is solid proof he deserves to be there.”—The Dallas Morning News “Outstanding . . . The author’s narrative gifts and excellent choice of detail give an almost Homeric quality to the men who met on the sea in steel titans.”—Booklist (starred review) “Brilliant . . . a compelling narrative of naval combat . . . simply superb.”—The Washington Times

Hell’s Islands

Author : Stanley Coleman Jersey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585446162
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Hell’s Islands written by Stanley Coleman Jersey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From August 1942 until February 1943, two armies faced each other amid the malarial jungles and blistering heat of Guadalcanal Island. The Imperial Japanese forces needed to protect and maintain the air base that gave them the ability to interdict enemy supply routes. The Allies were desperate to halt the advance of a foe that so far had inflicted crippling losses on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, then seized the Philippines, Wake Island, the Dutch East Indies, Guam, and other Allied territory. After months of relentless battle, the U.S. troops forced back the determined Japanese, providing what many historians believe was the decisive turning point in the Pacific theater of operations. Stanley Coleman Jersey, a medical air evacuation specialist in the South Pacific during World War II, has spent countless hours combing Australian, Japanese, and U.S. documents and interviewing more than 200 veterans of the Guadalcanal campaign, both Allied and Japanese. Beginning with the events that preceded the battle for Guadalcanal during the Australian defense of the southern Solomon Islands in late 1941, Jersey details the military preparations made in response to intelligence describing the creation of an enemy air base within striking distance of American supply lines and recounts the civilian evacuation that followed the Japanese arrival in New Guinea. With the stage set, he turns to the campaign itself, with particular emphasis on the combat during the critical period of August to December 1942. While Guadalcanal is his primary focus, Jersey also covers the roles played by forces occupying the other Solomon Islands, including the plight of construction laborers, air crews, and ground units. This book, chock-full of gripping battlefield accounts and harrowing first-person narratives, draws together for the first time Allied and Japanese perspectives on the bloody contest. It is certain to become an indispensable asset to historians of World War II.

Guadalcanal Campaign

Author :
Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guadalcanal Campaign written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Battle for Hell's Island

Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451473760
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Battle for Hell's Island written by Stephen L. Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Pacific Payback, the true story of how a patchwork band of aviators saved Guadalcanal during WWII. November 1942: Japanese and American forces fight for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in the South Pacific. The Japanese call it Jigoku no Shima—Hell's Island. Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive-bombers is called upon to help determine the island’s fate. When their carriers are lost, they are forced to operate from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal. They help form the Cactus Air Force, tasked with making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield while holding the line against Japanese air assaults, warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle. When the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—turning back an enemy warship armada, fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports. The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Hell at Tassafaronga

Author : Herbert C. Brown
Publisher : Ancient Mariners Press
ISBN 13 : 9780970072146
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Hell at Tassafaronga written by Herbert C. Brown and published by Ancient Mariners Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hell from the Heavens

Author : John Wukovits
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 030682325X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Hell from the Heavens written by John Wukovits and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II. On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey were battle hardened and prepared. They had engaged in combat off the Normandy coast in June 1944. They had been involved in three prior assaults of enemy positions in the Pacific-at Leyte and Lingayen in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima. They had seen kamikazes purposely crash into other destroyers and cruisers in their unit and had seen firsthand the bloody results of those crazed tactics. But nothing could have prepared the crew for this moment-an eighty-minute ordeal in which the single small ship was targeted by no fewer than twenty-two Japanese suicide aircraft. By the time the unprecedented attack on the Laffey was finished, thirty-two sailors lay dead, more than seventy were wounded, and the ship was grievously damaged. Although she lay shrouded in smoke and fire for hours, the Laffey somehow survived, and the gutted American warship limped from Okinawa's shore for home, where the ship and crew would be feted as heroes. Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and the sailors' wartime correspondence, historian and author John Wukovits breathes life into the story of this nearly forgotten historic event. The US Navy described the kamikaze attack on the Laffey "as one of the great sea epics of the war." In Hell from the Heavens, the author makes the ordeal of the Laffey and her crew a story for the ages.

Sunday in Hell

Author : Bill McWilliams
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497602378
Total Pages : 1293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Sunday in Hell written by Bill McWilliams and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 1293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of A Return to Glory constructs a compellingly detailed and panoramic history of the fateful day that ushered the United States into WWII. Using long-established historical records and contemporary journals, as well as recently released wartime documents, Bill McWilliams has created a brand-new minute-by-minute narrative of the Day That Will Live in Infamy. Told from the points of view of dozens of characters, from generals and admirals and politicians and diplomats down to deckhands and private soldiers and innocent civilians at all levels, this panoramic overview of one of the most traumatizing and shocking events in American history puts the reader in a position to understand the big picture of strategy and tactics, as well as the intimate details of what the chaos, violence, and presence of death felt like to people immersed in the surprise of an armed attack on American soil. December 7, 1941, was a turning point in the history of the United States, which had been teetering on a decision between isolationism and intervention. One might argue that every US military engagement since then has been affected by what happened when America learned that it could not stand by and watch war among strangers without potentially becoming involved—whether we wished to or not.

WW2 - War Is Hell

Author : Milton A. Rhea
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412017165
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book WW2 - War Is Hell written by Milton A. Rhea and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of a sailor experiencing the horrors and exciting times that accompany life aboard ship during WWII in the Pacific.

The Battle of Tassafaronga

Author : Estate of R S Crenshaw
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612515517
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Tassafaronga written by Estate of R S Crenshaw and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II’s Guadalcanal campaign. It ended a string of Japanese victories, but it was also a horrible embarrassment to the U.S. Navy, which had three heavy cruisers damaged and one sunk to enemy torpedoes. After the battle, American commanders erroneously reported that multiple enemy ships had been sunk or seriously damaged, leading Admiral Nimitz to focus on training as the missing ingredient. Not until more than half a century later did Captain Russell S. Crenshaw, Jr., the destroyer Maury’s gunnery officer during the battle, discover that the outcome hinged instead on critical shortcomings that had been built into the U.S. Navy before the war—defective torpedoes, poor intelligence, blinding gunfire, over-confidence, and a tendency to equate volume of fire with effectiveness of fire—factors that turned the battle into “a crucible in which the very nature of the U.S. Navy and its weapons was tested [and] a miniature of what might have been, under other circumstances, a truly devastating defeat.”

Underage and Under Fire

Author : Allan C. Stover
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615306
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Underage and Under Fire written by Allan C. Stover and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work tells the personal stories of boys and girls who left home and enlisted in the U.S. military at ages 11 to 16. Many had difficult home lives, some wanted adventure or a better future, but all wanted to serve their country. They missed high school proms, adolescent years with family and friends, homecoming parades, and graduation ceremonies. They served aboard ships and submarines, on airplanes, and at faraway bases and battlefields. Some became prisoners of war. Many performed above and beyond. Jack Lucas earned the Medal of Honor at Iwo Jima six days past his 17th birthday. Calvin Graham enlisted at age 12 and was wounded at Guadalcanal aboard the USS South Dakota. His story was made into a movie starring Rick Schroder. A 13-year-old girl enlisted but was later discovered and sent home from Europe. General Eisenhower told her, "Go home and grow up, little girl, we need more soldiers like you." One underage veteran became a senator, another, a governor, still another a Chief of Naval Operations. This book reveals why and how they got in, and what happened to them when they were there.

Victory at Guadalcanal

Author : Robert Edward Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Victory at Guadalcanal written by Robert Edward Lee and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Battles of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 and the Eastern Solomons, 23-25 August 1942

Author : Winston B. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Battles of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 and the Eastern Solomons, 23-25 August 1942 written by Winston B. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

World War II at Sea

Author : Craig L. Symonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190243686
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book World War II at Sea written by Craig L. Symonds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. World War II at Sea represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative of the naval war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas, between 1939 and 1945. Opening with the 1930 London Conference, Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up, as Europe erupted into conflict once more and its navies were brought to bear against each other. World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina-at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world-and the dominance of the Kidö Butai and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; Pearl Harbor then Midway; the struggles of the Russian Navy and the scuttling of the French Fleet in Toulon in 1942; the landings in North Africa and then Normandy. Here as well are the notable naval leaders-FDR and Churchill, both self-proclaimed "Navy men," Karl Dönitz, François Darlan, Ernest King, Isoroku Yamamoto, Erich Raeder, Inigo Campioni, Louis Mountbatten, William Halsey, as well as the hundreds of thousands of seamen and officers of all nationalities whose live were imperiled and lost during the greatest naval conflicts in history, from small-scale assaults and amphibious operations to the largest armadas ever assembled. Many have argued that World War II was dominated by naval operations; few have shown and how and why this was the case. Symonds combines precision with story-telling verve, expertly illuminating not only the mechanics of large-scale warfare on (and below) the sea but offering wisdom into the nature of the war itself.

World War II Veterans in Hollywood

Author : Art Evans
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476639671
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book World War II Veterans in Hollywood written by Art Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiling World War II veterans who became famous Hollywood personalities, this book presents biographical chapters on celebrities like Audie Murphy, "America's number one soldier"; Clark Gable, the "King of Hollywood"; Jimmy Stewart, combat pilot; Gene Autry, the "singing cowboy," who flew the infamous Hump; the amorous Mickey Rooney; Jackie Coogan, "the Kid" who crashed gliders in the jungle; James Arness, who acquired his Gunsmoke limp in the mountains of Italy; Tony Bennett, who discovered his voice during the Battle of the Bulge; and Lee Marvin, a Marine NCO who invaded 29 islands. Profiles of these and 21 others include little-known stories and details.

Ironbottom Sound

Author : Grover Hartt III
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1038327164
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Ironbottom Sound written by Grover Hartt III and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, a series of pivotal WWII land and sea confrontations occurred in the South Pacific between the Allied Forces and the Japanese for control of the island of Guadalcanal and its strategic airfield. For twenty-seven-year-old Scott Ellsworth, a smart, ambitious American naval officer posted onboard the USS Washington, a battleship in the area, it is an exciting place to be. With his background in radar-controlled gunnery and as a part of Admiral Lee’s core team, it’s also an important opportunity to move his career in the Navy forward. Yet despite his sincere desire to serve his country and fight for the freedoms it represents, Scott must also deal with the harsh reality that he does not have the freedom to openly live his life as a gay man. This and the demands of war complicate his recent relationship with the first man he has ever truly loved—a handsome British officer, named Emmett. In fact, he dares not even express his feelings in the letters he writes to Emmett as they are read by censors. Yet Scott remains determined to stay focused on his duties as he mentally prepares himself for his first taste of action in the war. But he learns that his old adversary, Tom Goodwin—who Scott knows has a connection to the mysterious death of the admiral they previously served under—is also on board. For Scott, it is a time of facing challenges and demons, both internal and external. In this exciting sequel to Proceedings of the Gun Club: Atlantic Overture, author Grover Hartt, III provides an accurate portrayal of the workings of a WWII battleship against the backdrop of an dramatic series of events that helped determine the outcome of the war. A skillful mix of historical fiction and fact, intrigue and romance, this book entertains and engages on a variety of levels.

South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943

Author : Mack Morriss
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189543
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943 written by Mack Morriss and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique chronicle of the war from the perspective of a sensitive twenty-four-year-old sergeant who wrote for the Army's in-house paper, Yank, the Army Weekly and a tale of the South Pacific that will not soon be forgotten. Correspondent Mack Morriss reluctantly left his diary in the Honolulu Yank office in July 1943. "Here is contained an account of the past eight and one-half months," he wrote in his last entry, "a period which I shall never forget." The next morning he was on a plane headed back to the South Pacific and the New Georgia battleground. Morriss was working out of the press camp at Spa, Belgium, in January 1945, when he learned that the diary he had kept in the South Pacific had arrived in a plain brown wrapper at the New York office. He was so happy "to know that this impossible thing had happened," he wrote to his wife, that he helped two friends "murder a quart of scotch." What was preserved and appears in print here for the first time is a unique chronicle of the war in the South Pacific from the perspective of a sensitive twenty-four-year-old sergeant. This is an intensely personal account, reporting the war from the ridge known as the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal, from the bars and dance halls of Auckland to a B-17 flying through the moonlit night to bomb Japanese installations on Bougainville. Morriss thought deeply and wrote movingly about everything connected with the war: the sordiness and heroism, the competence and ineptitude of leaders, the strange mixture of constant complaint and steady courage of ordinary GIs, friendships formed under combat stress, and, above all, what he perceived to be his own indecisiveness and weaknesses. Ronnie Day introduces Morriss's diary and illuminates the work with extensive notes based on private papers, government documents, travel in the Solomon Islands, and the recollections of men mentioned in the diary.

Islands of Destiny

Author : John Prados
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451414829
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Islands of Destiny written by John Prados and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted. Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and when the Pacific tide turned in the Allies’ favor. Using archives of WWII intelligence reports from both sides, Prados offers up a compelling reassessment of the true turning in the Pacific: not Midway, but the fight for the Solomon Islands. Combat in the Solomons saw a series of surface naval battles, including one of the key battleship-versus-battleship actions of the war; two major carrier actions; daily air duels, including the aerial ambush in which perished the famous Japanese naval commander Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku; and many other hair-raising exploits. Commencing with the Allied invasion of Guadalcanal, Prados shows how and why the Allies beat Japan on the sea, in the air, and in the jungles.