Author: Eric M. Hammel
Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Photo history of the Marines in the Solomons, fighting to neutralize the Japanese fortress at Rabaul and paving the way to victory in the Pacific.
New Georgia, Bougainville, and Cape Gloucester
Author: Eric M. Hammel
Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Photo history of the Marines in the Solomons, fighting to neutralize the Japanese fortress at Rabaul and paving the way to victory in the Pacific.
Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Photo history of the Marines in the Solomons, fighting to neutralize the Japanese fortress at Rabaul and paving the way to victory in the Pacific.
Cape Gloucester
Author: Bernard C. Nalty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Famed Green Dragons
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563114755
Category : Naval convoys
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563114755
Category : Naval convoys
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Cartwheel
Author: John Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This volume attempts to analyze the techniques by which the Allies employed their strength to bypass fortified positions and seize weakly defended but strategically important areas, or, in the apt baseball parlance used by General MacArthur, to "hit 'em where they ain't." It is, therefore, a study in strategy and high command as well as in tactics.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This volume attempts to analyze the techniques by which the Allies employed their strength to bypass fortified positions and seize weakly defended but strategically important areas, or, in the apt baseball parlance used by General MacArthur, to "hit 'em where they ain't." It is, therefore, a study in strategy and high command as well as in tactics.
Reports of General MacArthur: Japanese operation in the southwest Pacific area, compiled from Japanese Demobilization Bureaux records
Author: Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The USS Ward
Author: Richard P. Klobuchar
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476605432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In 1940, the threat of war in the Pacific forced the United States to expand its fleet quickly. This effort included reconditioning and recommissioning "four stackers" from the navy's reserve fleet. Built in 1918 to fight German submarines, the USS Ward earned at Pearl Harbor the distinction of firing the first shot in America's war against Japan. In the three years that followed, it was bombed, shelled, strafed, and finally sunk (on December 7, 1944), yet none of her crew of 125 men ever lost a life in combat. Information is drawn from naval records as well as from interviews with surviving crewmen. Appendices provide Ward technical data, a chronology of major events, listings of citations earned in World War II and of amphibious landings, and a roster of personnel.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476605432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In 1940, the threat of war in the Pacific forced the United States to expand its fleet quickly. This effort included reconditioning and recommissioning "four stackers" from the navy's reserve fleet. Built in 1918 to fight German submarines, the USS Ward earned at Pearl Harbor the distinction of firing the first shot in America's war against Japan. In the three years that followed, it was bombed, shelled, strafed, and finally sunk (on December 7, 1944), yet none of her crew of 125 men ever lost a life in combat. Information is drawn from naval records as well as from interviews with surviving crewmen. Appendices provide Ward technical data, a chronology of major events, listings of citations earned in World War II and of amphibious landings, and a roster of personnel.
Reports of General MacArthur: Japanese operations in the Southwest Pacific area (2 pts)
Author: Douglas MacArthur
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
USS LCI - Landing Craft Infantry Vol II
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563112620
Category : Landing craft
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563112620
Category : Landing craft
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - CARTWHEEL: the Reduction of Rabaul
Author: John Miller Jr.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782894012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
[Includes 2 tables, 11 charts, 22 maps and 71 illustrations] The campaign described in the present volume was important to the Army as an experience in amphibious warfare and combined operations against a formidable and still resourceful enemy. It was also of critical importance in the evolution of American strategy in the Pacific. CARTWHEEL began as an uphill fight with means that seemed inadequate to the ends proposed, even though these were limited. But it swiftly brought our forces to a crest from which we were able to launch the two powerful drives, through the Southwest and Central Pacific, that crushed Japan before we redeployed the forces directed against Germany. The campaign put to the test the principle of unity of command, and also the capacity for co-operation between two theaters, one under Army, the other under Navy command, and both under forceful and dominant commanders. By ingenious and aggressive use of the ground, sea, and air forces at their disposal they made these suffice to achieve more than had been foreseen as possible, and opened up a new vista of strategy. They took a heavy toll of the enemy’s resources, established the technique of bypassing his strongholds, including finally Rabaul itself, and threw him on the defensive. This book will be of interest not only to professional officers, but also to a wide variety of other readers and students.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782894012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
[Includes 2 tables, 11 charts, 22 maps and 71 illustrations] The campaign described in the present volume was important to the Army as an experience in amphibious warfare and combined operations against a formidable and still resourceful enemy. It was also of critical importance in the evolution of American strategy in the Pacific. CARTWHEEL began as an uphill fight with means that seemed inadequate to the ends proposed, even though these were limited. But it swiftly brought our forces to a crest from which we were able to launch the two powerful drives, through the Southwest and Central Pacific, that crushed Japan before we redeployed the forces directed against Germany. The campaign put to the test the principle of unity of command, and also the capacity for co-operation between two theaters, one under Army, the other under Navy command, and both under forceful and dominant commanders. By ingenious and aggressive use of the ground, sea, and air forces at their disposal they made these suffice to achieve more than had been foreseen as possible, and opened up a new vista of strategy. They took a heavy toll of the enemy’s resources, established the technique of bypassing his strongholds, including finally Rabaul itself, and threw him on the defensive. This book will be of interest not only to professional officers, but also to a wide variety of other readers and students.
Strategy and Command
Author: Louis Morton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
An analysis of organization and logistics as well as strategy and command, covering the coming of the war, Japanese policy and American strategy before Pearl Harbor, Japanese victories in the first six months of the war, first efforts in New Guinea and the Solomons to stem the Japanese tide, and the limited offensive in the summer of 1943.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
An analysis of organization and logistics as well as strategy and command, covering the coming of the war, Japanese policy and American strategy before Pearl Harbor, Japanese victories in the first six months of the war, first efforts in New Guinea and the Solomons to stem the Japanese tide, and the limited offensive in the summer of 1943.