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Central Pacific Campaigns And Operations
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Author : U. S. S. B. S. Naval Analysis Division Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-09-01
Central Pacific Campaigns And Operations written by U. S. S. B. S. Naval Analysis Division Staff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-01 with categories.
The Central Pacific Campaign 1943 1944
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Author : James T. Controvich
language : en
Publisher: Meckler Books
Release Date : 1990
The Central Pacific Campaign 1943 1944 written by James T. Controvich and has been published by Meckler Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
A guide to the literature surrounding American amphibious operations during WWII. Brief annotations. Subject arrangement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Central Pacific
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Author : Clayton R. Newell
language : en
Publisher: Army Center of Military History
Release Date : 1992
Central Pacific written by Clayton R. Newell and has been published by Army Center of Military History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
The U S Army Campaigns Of World War Ii Central Pacific
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Author : U. S. Army U.S. Army Center of Military History
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-12-17
The U S Army Campaigns Of World War Ii Central Pacific written by U. S. Army U.S. Army Center of Military History and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-17 with categories.
A series of 40 illustrated books that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during World War II. Each book describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.
Pacific Thunder
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Author : Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-19
Pacific Thunder written by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with History categories.
On 27 October 1942, four 'Long Lance' torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea. Of the pre-war carrier fleet the Navy had struggled to build over 15 years, only three were left: USS Enterprise, which had been badly damaged in the battle of Santa Cruz; USS Saratoga (CV-3) which lay in dry dock, victim of a Japanese submarine torpedo; and the USS Ranger (CV-4), which was in the mid-Atlantic on her way to support Operation Torch. For the American naval aviators licking their wounds in the aftermath of this defeat, it would be difficult to imagine that within 24 months of this event, Zuikaku, the last survivor of the carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor, would lie at the bottom of the sea. Alongside it lay the other surviving Japanese carriers, sacrificed as lures in a failed attempt to block the American invasion of the Philippines, leaving the United States to reign supreme on the world's largest ocean. Now publishing in paperback, this is the fascinating account of the Central Pacific campaign, one of the most stunning comebacks in naval history, as in just 14 months the US Navy went from the jaws of defeat to the brink of victory in the Pacific.
Pacific Blitzkrieg
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Author : Sharon Tosi Lacey
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Pacific Blitzkrieg written by Sharon Tosi Lacey and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with History categories.
Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the planning, preparation, and execution of ground operations for five major invasions in the Central Pacific (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, the Marshalls, Saipan, and Okinawa). The commanders on the ground had to integrate the U.S. Army and Marine Corps into a single striking force, something that would have been difficult in peacetime, but in the midst of a great global war, it was a monumental task. Yet, ultimate success in the Pacific rested on this crucial, if somewhat strained, partnership and its accomplishments. Despite the thousands of works covering almost every aspect of World War II in the Pacific, until now no one has examined the detailed mechanics behind this transformation at the corps and division level. Sharon Tosi Lacey makes extensive use of previously untapped primary research material to re-examine the development of joint ground operations, the rapid transformation of tactics and equipment, and the evolution of command relationships between army and marine leadership. This joint venture was the result of difficult and patient work by commanders and evolving staffs who acted upon the lessons of each engagement with remarkable speed. For every brilliant strategic and operational decision of the war, there were thousands of minute actions and adaptations that made such brilliance possible. Lacey examines the Smith vs. Smith controversy during the Saipan invasion using newly discovered primary source material. Saipan was not the first time General “Howlin’ Mad” Smith had created friction. Lacey reveals how Smith’s blatant partisanship and inability to get along with others nearly brought the American march across the Pacific to a halt. Pacific Blitzkrieg explores the combat in each invasion to show how the battles were planned, how raw recruits were turned into efficient combat forces, how battle doctrine was created on the fly, and how every service remade itself as new and more deadly weapons continuously changed the character of the war. This book will be a must read for anyone who wants to get a behind-the-scenes story of the victory. “Pacific Blitzkrieg is not only a major contribution to our understanding of the Pacific War, but is also a delight to read. Lacey demolishes the belief, widely held among students of the Pacific War, that a deep gulf lay between the Marine Corps and the Army. In every respect Pacific Blitzkrieg is what one should expect from a scholarly book: well researched, well argued, and coherent.”—Williamson Murray, coauthor of A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War “This is a significantly fresh approach in that it goes beyond the Army-Marine controversies best exemplified by ‘Smith versus Smith.’ It does so by explaining their genesis in institutional and personal terms, then showing how both services marginalized the controversies during the war, in the interest of resolving the real problem: crossing the central Pacific with minimum cost and maximum effectiveness.”—Dennis E. Showalter, author of Hitler’s Panzers and Patton and Rommel “Pacific Blitzkrieg is an exceptional analysis of U.S. joint amphibious operations against Japan during World War II. Lacey clearly demonstrates that despite the heat of the Smith versus Smith controversy during the invasion of Saipan, in fact U.S. Army and Marine units and commanders cooperated far better than the published historical record to date suggests. A must read for current and future joint force commanders and their staffs.”—Peter R. Mansoor, author of The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945
Central Pacific Drive
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Author : Henry L. Shaw Jr
language : en
Publisher: St. John's Press
Release Date : 2016-10-19
Central Pacific Drive written by Henry L. Shaw Jr and has been published by St. John's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-19 with History categories.
in This book, the third in a projected five-volume series, continues the comprehensive history of Marine Corps operations in World War II. The story of individual campaigns, once told in separate detai1 in preliminary monographs, has been reevaluated and rewritten to show events in proportion to each other and in correct perspective to the war as a whole. New material, particularly from Japanese sources, which has become available since the writing of the monographs, has been included to provide fresh insight into the Marine Corps' contribution to the final victory in the Pacific. During the period covered in these pages, we learned a great deal about the theory and practice of amphibious warfare. But most of all we confirmed the basic soundness of the doctrine which had been developed in prewar years by a dedicated and farsighted group of Navy and Marine Corps officers. These men, the leaders and workers in the evolution of modern amphibious tactics and techniques, served their country well. Anticipating the demands of a vast naval campaign in the Pacific, they developed requirements and tested prototypes for the landing craft and vehicles which first began to appear in large numbers at the time of the Central Pacific battles. Many of the senior officers among these prewar teachers and planners were the commanders who 1ed the forces afloat and ashore in the Gilberts, Marshalls, and Marianas. Allied strategy envisioned two converging drives upon the inner core of Japanese defenses, one mounted in the Southwest Pacific under General MacArthur's command, the other in the Central Pacific under Admiral Nimitz. Although Marines fought on land and in the air in the campaign to isolate Rabaul, and played a part significant beyond their numbers, it was in the Central Pacific that the majority of Fleet Marine Force units saw action. Here, a smoothly functioning Navy-Marine Corps team, ably supported by Army ground and air units, took part in a series of amphibious assaults that ranged in complexity from the seizure of tiny and heavily defended islets, where there was little room for maneuver and no respite from combat, to large islands where two and three divisions could advance in concert.
History Of U S Marine Corps Operations In World War Ii
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Author : Henry I. Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Military Bookshop
Release Date : 2012-07-01
History Of U S Marine Corps Operations In World War Ii written by Henry I. Shaw and has been published by Military Bookshop this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with History categories.
Supremacy At Sea
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Author : Evan Mawdsley
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-14
Supremacy At Sea written by Evan Mawdsley and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-14 with History categories.
The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy Task Force 58 was World War II’s most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen aircraft carriers, over a thousand combat aircraft, and an armada of escorts, it was vital to victory over Japan. In this compelling account, Evan Mawdsley charts the 3,500-mile dash of the “Big Blue Fleet” across the Central Pacific in the first six months of 1944, overwhelming enemy opposition and transforming the nature of naval warfare. The Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944 crushed the enemy’s naval air force and secured war-winning air bases in the Mariana Islands. Mawdsley examines the elements of the rapidly assembled force—ships, planes, and 100,000 officers and men—as well as the advanced bases and fleet train that provided such astounding mobility. Task Force 58’s campaign marked the achievement of naval supremacy by the United States, a status it maintains to this day.
Storm Landings
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Author : Joseph H. Alexander
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1997
Storm Landings written by Joseph H. Alexander and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
The author describes how the tide of the Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Adm. Chester W. Nimitz unleashed his Central Pacific Marine assaults against seven objectives, including Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Richly illustrated and abounding with human-interest stories, the book vividly portrays these battles whose magnitude may never again be seen in this world. 20 photos. 12 drawings. 12 maps.