Author: Robert Emmet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"A Brief History of the 11th Marines" is a concise narrative of the activities of that regiment since its initial organization 50 years ago . Official records and appropriate historical works were used in compiling thi s chronicle, which is published for the information of thos e interested in the history of those events in which the 11th Marines participated.--Preface.
A Brief History of the 11th Marines
Author: Robert Emmet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"A Brief History of the 11th Marines" is a concise narrative of the activities of that regiment since its initial organization 50 years ago . Official records and appropriate historical works were used in compiling thi s chronicle, which is published for the information of thos e interested in the history of those events in which the 11th Marines participated.--Preface.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"A Brief History of the 11th Marines" is a concise narrative of the activities of that regiment since its initial organization 50 years ago . Official records and appropriate historical works were used in compiling thi s chronicle, which is published for the information of thos e interested in the history of those events in which the 11th Marines participated.--Preface.
1st Marine Division in Vietnam
Author: Simon Dunstan
Publisher:
ISBN: 1616732636
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 1616732636
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Old Breed
Author: George McMillan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
History of the First Marine Division in World War II.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
History of the First Marine Division in World War II.
A Brief History of the 1st Marines
Author: John Harold Johnstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Brief History of the 7th Marines
Author: James S Santelli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A Brief History of the 14th Marines
Author: Ronald J. Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A Brief History of the First Marines
Author: John Harold Johnstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
One Hundred Eighty Landings of United States Marines, 1800-1934
Author: United States. Marine Corps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Young Blood
Author: Gary E. Jarvis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967577029
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967577029
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Last Man Standing
Author: Dick Camp
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 1616732415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
One of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, Operation Stalemate, as Peleliu was called, was overshadowed by the Normandy landings. It was also, in time, judged by most historians to have been unnecessary; though it had been conceived to protect MacArthur’s flank in the Philippines, the U.S. fleet’s carrier raids had eliminated Japanese airpower, rendering Peleliu irrelevant. Nevertheless, the horrifying number of casualties sustained there (71% in one battalion) foreshadowed for the rest of the war: rather than fight to the death on the beach, the Japanese would now defend in depth and bleed the Americans white. Drawing extensively on personal interviews, the Marine Corps History Division’s vast oral history and photographic collection, and many never-before-published sources, this book gives us a new and harrowing vision of what really happened at Peleliu--and what it meant. Working closely with two of the 1st Regiment’s battalion commanders--Ray Davis and Russ Honsowetz--Marine Corps veteran and military historian Dick Camp recreates the battle as it was experienced by the men and their officers. Soldiers who survived the terrible slaughter recall the brutality of combat against an implacable foe; they describe the legendary “Chesty” Puller, leading his decimated regiment against enemy fortifications; they tell of Davis, wounded but refusing evacuation while his men were under fire; and of a division commander who rejects Army reinforcements. Most of all, their richly detailed, deeply moving story is one of desperate combat in the face of almost certain failure, of valor among comrades joined against impossible odds.
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 1616732415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
One of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, Operation Stalemate, as Peleliu was called, was overshadowed by the Normandy landings. It was also, in time, judged by most historians to have been unnecessary; though it had been conceived to protect MacArthur’s flank in the Philippines, the U.S. fleet’s carrier raids had eliminated Japanese airpower, rendering Peleliu irrelevant. Nevertheless, the horrifying number of casualties sustained there (71% in one battalion) foreshadowed for the rest of the war: rather than fight to the death on the beach, the Japanese would now defend in depth and bleed the Americans white. Drawing extensively on personal interviews, the Marine Corps History Division’s vast oral history and photographic collection, and many never-before-published sources, this book gives us a new and harrowing vision of what really happened at Peleliu--and what it meant. Working closely with two of the 1st Regiment’s battalion commanders--Ray Davis and Russ Honsowetz--Marine Corps veteran and military historian Dick Camp recreates the battle as it was experienced by the men and their officers. Soldiers who survived the terrible slaughter recall the brutality of combat against an implacable foe; they describe the legendary “Chesty” Puller, leading his decimated regiment against enemy fortifications; they tell of Davis, wounded but refusing evacuation while his men were under fire; and of a division commander who rejects Army reinforcements. Most of all, their richly detailed, deeply moving story is one of desperate combat in the face of almost certain failure, of valor among comrades joined against impossible odds.