Hell In The Central Pacific 1944
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Hell In The Central Pacific 1944
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Author : Jon Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2020-08-30
Hell In The Central Pacific 1944 written by Jon Diamond and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-30 with History categories.
Covers an early little known but hard fought Pacific War campaign using superb photographs in true Images of War series style. In September 1944, to prevent Japanese air interdiction against General MacArthur’s planned invasion of the Southern Philippines, the Americans attacked Peleliu and Angaur in the Palau group of the Western Caroline Islands. Admiral Halsey, commanding the US Third Fleet, feared the heavily defended Palaus would be costly for his III Amphibious Corps comprising the 1st Marine Division and the 81st Infantry Division. While Angaur fell in four days, on Peleliu the Japanese resisted tenaciously using their underground fortifications on the Umurbrogel Ridge overlooking the airfield. It was only after over two months’ bitter fighting that the Americans finally controlled the Island. Despite the heavy cost, the benefits of this hard fought and costly victory were doubtful. In the event, Mindanao and other Southern Philippine Islands were bypassed by MacArthur in favor of a direct assault on Leyte on 20 October. But, as the graphic images and well researched text bear witness, there is no denying the courage and determination shown by the attacking US forces.
Hell Is Upon Us
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Author : Victor Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Hell Is Upon Us written by Victor Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Peleliu 1944
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Author : Jim Moran
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01-20
Peleliu 1944 written by Jim Moran and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-20 with History categories.
Equalling Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa in scale and ferocity, the battle for Peleliu has long been regarded as the Pacific War's “forgotten battle”, and perhaps one that should never have been fought. A massive carrier-based attack some weeks before the invasion destroyed all aircraft and shipping in the area and virtually isolated the Japanese garrison. 1st Marine Division commander, General Rupertus, made extravagant claims that the capture of Peleliu would “only take three days – maybe two.” But the Japanese fought a bloody battle of attrition from prepared positions an in a struggle of unprecedented savagery a whole Marine Division was bled white.
Hell Is Upon Us
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Author : Victor Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Hell Is Upon Us written by Victor Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
To The Marianas
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Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
To The Marianas written by Edwin Palmer Hoyt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Mariana Islands categories.
Recounts U.S. amphibious operations in the central Pacific, on islands like Eniwetok, Kwajalein, and Saipan, and the friction between leaders of the Pacific fleet that further complicated the Allied attack on the Japanese defense perimeter.
To The Far Side Of Hell
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Author : Derrick Wright
language : en
Publisher: Alabama Fire Ant
Release Date : 2005
To The Far Side Of Hell written by Derrick Wright and has been published by Alabama Fire Ant this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
A poignant account and analysis of the bloody battle in the Pacific. To the Far Side of Hell is the story of the World War II battle for the Pacific island of Peleliu in the autumn of 1944. Although this battle is far less well known--even among U.S. Marine Corps veterans--than Tarawa, Iwo Jima, or Okinawa, the savagery of the fighting, the courage and determination displayed, and the casualty rate suffered by the units of the 1st Marine Division can claim equal significance. Peleliu was a troubled operation from the start. Since the fast-moving situation in the Central Pacific seemed to have removed any pressing need to occupy the Palau Islands, it is arguable that the battle was not necessary. For the planners of the island-hopping campaign, the operation was a distraction from a more important goal--the Marianas. The 1st Marine Division, weary from earlier campaigns, was not given needed resources prior to the invasion, and there were damaging tensions within the senior ranks. When the Marines landed, they came up against Japan’s new defensive technique--a garrison determined to die where they stood, fortified in deep, complex bunker systems. In searing heat, and exposed to the dug-in Japanese guns amidst the ridges and gulches of an unsuspected labyrinth of concrete-hard coral, the Marines found the predicted short conflict turned into a protracted, bloody 71-day battle.
Islands Of Hell
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Author : Eric Hammel
language : en
Publisher: Zenith Press
Release Date : 2010-03-01
Islands Of Hell written by Eric Hammel and has been published by Zenith Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-01 with History categories.
By the summer of 1944 the tide had turned in the Pacific War against the Japanese. The war was not nearly over, however, and the U.S. Marines had their heaviest combat in front of them. Here for the first time is a detailed photographic history for the Fighting Leathernecks' fierce combat for the Marianas, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Illustrated with hundreds of never-before-published photographs and supplemented with full-color maps, Islands of Hell is a historical and visual treat.
Special Piece Of Hell
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Author : Bill D. Ross
language : en
Publisher: St Martins Press
Release Date : 1993-04-08
Special Piece Of Hell written by Bill D. Ross and has been published by St Martins Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04-08 with Peleliu, Battle of, Palau, 1944 categories.
An account of World War II's battle of Peleliu describes how the acts of individual courage among the men of the 1st Marine Division and the division's spirit helped the U.S. win an important victory in the Pacific theater of operation. Reprint.
Hell From The Heavens
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Author : John Wukovits
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2015-04-07
Hell From The Heavens written by John Wukovits and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with History categories.
Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II. On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey were battle hardened and prepared. They had engaged in combat off the Normandy coast in June 1944. They had been involved in three prior assaults of enemy positions in the Pacific-at Leyte and Lingayen in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima. They had seen kamikazes purposely crash into other destroyers and cruisers in their unit and had seen firsthand the bloody results of those crazed tactics. But nothing could have prepared the crew for this moment-an eighty-minute ordeal in which the single small ship was targeted by no fewer than twenty-two Japanese suicide aircraft. By the time the unprecedented attack on the Laffey was finished, thirty-two sailors lay dead, more than seventy were wounded, and the ship was grievously damaged. Although she lay shrouded in smoke and fire for hours, the Laffey somehow survived, and the gutted American warship limped from Okinawa's shore for home, where the ship and crew would be feted as heroes. Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and the sailors' wartime correspondence, historian and author John Wukovits breathes life into the story of this nearly forgotten historic event. The US Navy described the kamikaze attack on the Laffey "as one of the great sea epics of the war." In Hell from the Heavens, the author makes the ordeal of the Laffey and her crew a story for the ages.
Hell Is Upon Us
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Author : Victor Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2007-06-26
Hell Is Upon Us written by Victor Brooks and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-26 with History categories.
On June 14, 1944, little more than a week after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, another mighty fleet steamed towards its own D-Day landing. The target of this mighty U.S. armada was the Marianas Island group, which included Saipan, home to an important Japanese base, and Guam, the first American territory captured in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. When the brutal fighting ended eight weeks later, 60,000 Japanese ground troops and most of the carrier air power of the Japanese Imperial Navy were annihilated. Hell Is Upon Us skillfully describes the entire Marianas campaign-World War II's most ambitious combined service operation and the largest carrier battle in history-and provides riveting first-hand accounts of the soldiers, marines, sailors, and airmen who fought through the hell of Japan's Pacific defense.