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Author : David E. Harper
Publisher : Squadron/Signal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780897475594
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Tank Warfare on Iwo Jima written by David E. Harper and published by Squadron/Signal Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Neiman
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1585442402
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Tanks on the Beaches written by Robert M. Neiman and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Neiman, perhaps the most experienced combat commander of the U.S. Marine Corps’ tank arm, was one of the rare USMC officers to serve in both Iwo Jima and Okinawa battles. In Tanks on the Beaches, Neiman and his coauthor, Kenneth Estes, relay vivid accounts of fighting in the Pacific War, as well as Marine Corps service during the entire World War II period, devoid of idolatry and mythmaking. The result is a war story told from the unique perspective of men fighting from armored machines in desperate battles against a determined enemy. After the capture of Guadalcanal, Neiman endured Japanese bombardments there to gather information for his assignment as operations officer of a new tank school being formed in California. He eventually led his own tank company through four island battles culminating in the cauldron of Iwo Jima. Later, he finished the war as executive officer and commanding officer of the 1st Tank Battalion on occupation and security duty in North China in 1945–46. Neiman and Estes take the reader from prewar training at Quantico and in North Carolina through the delights of a New Zealand bereft of men, the horrors of Saipan and Iwo, the peculiar situation in China after the war, and then the trip back to the States for Neiman’s successful postwar career as a lumber retailer. Through it all, Estes translates Neiman’s eye for the interesting and the human into a multifaceted tale of a young Marine going to war. This is an adventure story with many novel turns that will attract the interest of military experts, military history aficionados, Marine Corps members in general, and veterans of armored fighting vehicle units. Neiman is not a USMC icon, just one of the unheralded thousands of officers who did the real fighting. This is their story, as much as it is his.
Author : Romain Cansière
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472860373
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Tanks on Iwo Jima 1945 written by Romain Cansière and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning US Marine Corps armor historian's account of the role of US and Japanese tanks on Iwo Jima. The battle of Iwo Jima is iconic and known for its brutality: this was the only battle in which the number of US casualties outnumbered those of the Japanese. But as is often the case with the Pacific campaigns, the tank action on the island has generally been overshadowed by that of infantry. The tank, however, played an important role as a support weapon – especially on the US side – despite the rough terrain and unconventional enemy tactics. Using unpublished official records and veterans' accounts, award-winning USMC armor specialist Romain Cansière sheds new light on Japanese and USMC armored operations on the island. This book offers new information on the battle in a complete, concise, and accessible format, and its illustrations include unpublished photographs from private collections and meticulously researched new color profiles, highlighting the tanks' modifications and their diverse camouflage and markings.
Author : Steve Zaloga
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811704246
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Armored Thunderbolt written by Steve Zaloga and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II • Compares the Sherman to other tanks, including the Panther and Tiger • Author is a world-renowned expert on the Sherman tank and American armor Some tank crews referred to the American M4 Sherman tank as a "death trap." Others, like Gen. George Patton, believed that the Sherman helped win World War II. So which was it: death trap or war winner? Armor expert Steven Zaloga answers that question by recounting the Sherman's combat history. Focusing on Northwest Europe (but also including a chapter on the Pacific), Zaloga follows the Sherman into action on D-Day, among the Normandy hedgerows, during Patton's race across France, in the great tank battle at Arracourt in September 1944, at the Battle of the Bulge, across the Rhine, and in the Ruhr pocket in 1945.
Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors
ISBN 13 : 9781932033106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Tank Warfare written by Tim Ripley and published by Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tank Warfare looks at the way that tanks changed warfare from their first introduction on the static Western Front of World War I, through the proving ground of World War II, where the tank became the queen of the battlefield, to its more dangerous position on the modern battlefield. Today, the tank is still a major asset but against it there has evolved a range of defensive antitank options - light infantry-borne antitank weapons, mines, attack helicopters, and tank-busting aircraft - that do much to dull its edge of invincibility.Each chapter in Tank Warfare examines carefully the evolution of tanks in the period, illustrating the seminal types, and looks at the changes to the threats against armor, assessing the improvement of the tank's physical and tactical defenses against such threats. It is intelligently written, cogent, and extremely well illustrated and it provides a much-needed discussion of a vital component of land warfare. Tim Ripley is a research associate at Lancaster University's Centre for Defence and International Security Studies (CDISS) in the United Kingdom. Over the past decade he has traveled extensively in the Middle East and Balkan region as a correspondent for Janes's Defence Weekly, Jane's Intelligence Review and Flight International.
Author : Fred L. Ward
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450003222
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Picking up the Pieces written by Fred L. Ward and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-01-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book This book is about a young Marine who went through the entire battle of IWO JIMA just 43 days before his 19th birthday. Now less than two months from his 80th birthday, he is putting his memories on paper where it belongs. His memory is alive and well, his eyewitness accounts are extremely vivid and accurate. This former Marine is the author of his own book, Picking up the Pieces. You will find this book to be heart-breaking in its entirety, accurate and true. Youll find this book often times will give you the urge to cry. In writing this book, dont be surprised to see faded tear drops here and there, thats okay because it will make you appreciate this book more. I also hope that you will find the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the honesty of Lincoln, and the bravery of Geronimo in the determination and victory of this Marine. The Author P.S. In my old age, I try not to remember my battle experiences too often, but when I do, you know what? I cry too.
Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780960328
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book US Marine Corps Tanks of World War II written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the US Marine Corps formed six tank battalions that battled through the harsh conditions of the Pacific Theatre. Using the same basic tanks as the US Army, notably the M3 and M5A1 light tanks and the M4 Sherman medium tank, the marines made both technical and tactical innovations to make them more effective in the fight against the Japanese. Deep wading equipment, flamethrower tanks, and even wooden armor all became part of the Marine arsenal. This book examines the tactics and technology that made the US Marine Corps tank service unique in the annals of warfare.
Author : Oscar E. Gilbert
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504025075
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea written by Oscar E. Gilbert and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning military historian delivers “an excellent read” on tank combat in the Forgotten War based on interviews with veterans who were there (MAFVA.org). The outbreak of the Korean conflict caught America (and the Marine Corps) unprepared. The Corps' salvation was the existence of its Organized Reserve (an organization rich in veterans of the fighting in World War II), the availability of modern equipment in storage and, as always, the bravery, initiative, and adaptability of individual Marines. In this follow-up to his enormously successful Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific, Oscar Gilbert presents an equally exhaustive and detailed account of the little-known Marine tank engagements in Korea, supported by forty-eight photographs, eight original maps, and dozens of survivor interviews. Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea details every action, from the valiant defense at Pusan and the bitter battles of the Chosin Reservoir, to the grinding and bloody stalemate along the Jamestown Line. Many of these stories are presented here for the first time, such as the unique role played by tanks in the destruction of the ill-fated Task Force Drysdale, how Marine armor played a key role in the defense of Hagaru, and how a lone tank made it to Yudamni and then led the breakout across the high Toktong Pass. Marine tankers—individually and as an organization—met every challenge posed by this vicious, protracted, and forgotten war. It is a story of bravery and fortitude you will never forget.
Author : Oscar E. Gilbert
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306817144
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Marine Tank Battles In The Pacific written by Oscar E. Gilbert and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No previous book has been devoted to Marine Corps armor in World War II. Gilbert's gripping narrative combines exhaustive detail on Marine armor and combat with moving eyewitness accounts, never before published, of what it was actually like to be a Marine tanker in action in the Pacific.
Author : Joseph H. Alexander
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima written by Joseph H. Alexander and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima is a fact-based account of the battle for Iwo Jima in the Pacific, a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The war took place on Iwo Jima volcano island, which was a small island for such a large number of casualties of about twenty-two thousand Japanese and nearly seven thousand US Marines, with another nineteen thousand Americans injured. Joseph H. Alexander (1938 – 2014) himself was a Colonel of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for twenty-nine years, and he was also a historian. He has given a historical insight into the war in the Pacific through this book.
Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846037883
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book World War II Japanese Tank Tactics written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, expert author and tactician Gordon L Rottman provides the first English-language study of Japanese Army and Navy tank units, their tactics and how they were deployed in action. The Japanese army made extensive use of its tanks in the campaigns in China in the 1930s, and it was in these early successes that the Japanese began to develop their own unique style of tank tactics. From the steam-rolling success of the Japanese as they invaded Manchuria until the eventual Japanese defeat, Rottman provides a battle history of the Japanese tank units as they faced the Chinese, the Russians, the British and the Americans.
Author : Andrew Rawson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752477994
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Battle Story: Iwo Jima 1945 written by Andrew Rawson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific. If you truly want to understand what happened and why – read this battle story. Detailed profiles explore the leaders, tactics and equipment of the US and Japanese armies. Nine specially commissioned maps track the progress of the battle and the shifting frontlines. Rare photographs place you in the centre of the unfolding action. Diary extracts and quotes give you a soldier’s eye-view of the battle. Orders of Battle reveal the composition of the opposing forces’ armies. Packed with fact boxes, this short introduction is the perfect way to explore this important battle.
Author : Richard F. Newcomb
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805070712
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Iwo Jima written by Richard F. Newcomb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
Author : Fred Haynes
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429937920
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Lions of Iwo Jima written by Fred Haynes and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America understand how it was done."—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. The unit, 4,500 men strong, plunged immediately into ferocious combat, and by the time the battled ended, 70 percent of the men in the team's three assault battalions were killed or seriously wounded. The stories told here, many for the first time, will seem too cruel, too heartbreaking to be believed. As one veteran remarked, "Each day we learned a new way to die." Major General Fred Haynes, then a young captain, is the last surviving office in CT 28 who was intimately involved in planning and coordinating all phases of the team's fight on Iwo Jima. In this astonishing narrative, Haynes and James A. Warren recapture in riveting detail what the Marines experienced, drawing on a wealth of previously untapped documents, personal narratives, letters, and interviews with survivors to offer fresh interpretations of the fight for Suribachi, the iconic flag-raising photograph, and the nature of the campaign as a whole.
Author : Bertram A. Yaffe
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fragments of War written by Bertram A. Yaffe and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World War II marine officer who survived three major campaigns in the Pacific offers an authentic and compelling picture of tank warfare in this chronicle of his experiences. From the grueling combat in the rain forest of Bougainville to the fierce assault on Guam and the vicious struggle for Iwo Jima, Bertram Yaffe balances the realities of combat with personal reflections on the nature of humanity and courage under horrifying circumstances. With wry humor he takes us inside the mind of a young tank officer wrestling with the concept of war and his own need to square rationalism with an intuitive, sometimes mystical, view of reality. As a result, Yaffe shares with us the meditations and avenues of contemplation that helped him survive the grotesque experience of war and cope with the stress that so often follows extreme battlefield ordeals. Central to his ability to deal with these problems, we learn, were his deep feelings for his wife and the important family bonds their marriage helped restore - their Russian-Jewish grandfathers were brothers separated during the Russo-Japanese War.
Author : Derrick Wright
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075099407X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Battle for Iwo Jima 1945 written by Derrick Wright and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iwo Jima was the United States Marine Corps' toughest ever battle and a turning point in the Pacific War. In February 1945, three Marine Divisions stormed the island's shores in what was supposed to be a ten-day battle, but they had reckoned without General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the enemy commander.
Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1543572626
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Iwo Jima written by Steven Otfinoski and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid storytelling brings World War II history to life and place readers in the shoes of the people who experienced one of the most pivotal battles in the Pacific War. On February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines landed on the island of tiny Iwo Jima. Facing rugged terrain and a deeply entrenched enemy, they embarked on a fierce, five-week battle to take the island and its airfields from the Imperial Japanese Army. Suspenseful, dramatic events unfold in chronological, interwoven stories from the different perspectives of people who experienced the battle while it was happening. Narratives intertwine to create a breathless, "What's Next?" kind of read. Students gain a new perspective on historical figures as they learn about real people struggling to decide how best to act in a given moment.
