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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563112078
Category : Veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Steven K. Dixon
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078649798X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Trained as a photo reconnaissance unit, Marine Observation Squadron 251 ended up serving as a fighter squadron for the duration of World War II, shooting down 32 Japanese aircraft. The squadron earned several awards for outstanding performance, including the Presidential Unit Citation. This book is the first to cover the World War II history of VMFA-251, one of the Marine Corps' longest-serving squadrons. The author traces their operations from the unit's activation on December 1, 1941, through Guadalcanal, the reduction of Rabaul and their missions over the Philippines in 1945.

Author: Warren H. Goodman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Robert Sherrod
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Berry Craig
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0938021397
Category : Charles H. Baker Collection
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Michael Crowder
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1618585576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 830

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Author: Robert Lee Sherrod
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892010486
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Campbell
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257881396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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During World War II, the U.S. military lost some 35,000 aircraft to enemy action, training incidents, typhoons, aircraft carrier deck mishaps, mechanical failures or just normal wear-and-tear where aircraft were scrapped and used for parts to keep others flying. Many just failed to return from their missions. To date, the 15,069 aircraft represented in this 3-volume set is information initially transferred from hand-written "Aircraft History Cards" and are the total number of U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aircraft lost between 7 December 1941 and 15 August 1945, and lost outside the continental United States (CONUS). Volume II represents the information on any aircraft lost that was attached to any of the 713 squadrons listed in the database. Given the thousands of hours that went into this effort, the author hopes that, as a 3-volume set of reference books, it provides assistance to others who are researching ship, squadron and aircraft histories.

Author: Henry I. Shaw
Publisher: Military Bookshop
ISBN: 9781780398785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: Major Charles W. Boggs Jr. USMC
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782892877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479

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Contains 58 photos and 10 maps and charts. “The return of Allied forces to the Philippines in the fall of 1944 further throttled Japan’s already tenuous pipe line to the rich resources of Malaya and the Netherlands Indies, and with it the last vestige of her ability to meet the logistical requirements of a continuing war. The Battle for Leyte Gulf marked the end of Japan as a naval power, forcing her to adopt the desperation kamikaze tactic against the United States Fleets. The Philippine victories were primarily Army and Navy operations. Marines, comprising only a fraction of the total forces engaged, played a secondary but significant role in the overall victory. The campaign was important to the Corps in that the Marine aviators, who had battled two years for air control over the Solomons, moved into a new role, their first opportunity to test on a large scale the fundamental Marine doctrine of close air support for ground troops in conventional land operations. This test they passed with credit, and Marine flyers contributed materially to the Philippine victory. Lessons learned and techniques perfected in those campaigns form an important chapter in our present-day close air support doctrines.”-C. B. CATES, GENERAL, U.S. MARINE CORPS, COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS