The Capture Of Makin 20 24 November 1943 Illustrated Edition
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The Capture Of Makin 20 24 November 1943 Illustrated Edition
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Author : Anon
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
The Capture Of Makin 20 24 November 1943 Illustrated Edition written by Anon and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
Includes 10 maps, 3 charts and 39 illustrations Invasion of the Gilbert Islands brought the war in the Central Pacific to a new phase. After almost two years of defense, of critical engagements like the Battle of Midway (3-6 June 1942) and hit-and-run raids like those against Makin (17 August 1942) and Wake Island (24 December 1942), the United Nations were taking the offensive. They were to do in that area what had been done for a year in the Southwest Pacific. The attack upon the Gilberts was for the Central Pacific the counterpart of that upon the Solomons (7 August 1942) in the Southwest Pacific. Japanese-held bases were to be recovered and used against the enemy in further strikes toward the heart of his empire. Before dawn on 20 November 1943, an assemblage of American military might lay waiting off the western shore of Makin, northernmost atoll in the Gilbert Islands. A strong task force, with transports carrying men of the U. S. Army, was about to commence the assault on Makin. Off Tarawa, about 105 miles to the south, an even larger force of U. S. Marines was poised in readiness to seize the airfield and destroy the Japanese there. From points as distant as the Hawaiian Islands and New Zealand, and by several different routes, the separate elements of this armada had gathered to carry out our first aggressive mission in the Central Pacific. The attack upon Makin would be the first seizure of an atoll by an Army landing force.
The Capture Of Makin 20 24 November 1943
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Author : Etats-Unis. Office of military history
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
The Capture Of Makin 20 24 November 1943 written by Etats-Unis. Office of military history and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with categories.
The Capture Of Makin
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language : en
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Release Date : 1946
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The Capture Of Makin
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Author : United States. War Dept. General Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Capture Of Makin written by United States. War Dept. General Staff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Makin Atoll, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943 categories.
The Capture Of Makin
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Author : War Department. Historical Division
language : en
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Release Date : 1946
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Om amerikanske troppers invasion på stillehavsøen Makin i Gilbertøerne i november 1943 under 2. Verdenskrig.
United States Army In Wwii The Pacific Campaign In The Marianas
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Author : Philip A. Crowl
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
United States Army In Wwii The Pacific Campaign In The Marianas written by Philip A. Crowl and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
[Includes 2 tables, 14 charts, 33 maps and 89 illustrations] In the capture of the southern Marianas during the summer of 1944, Army ground and air forces played an important, though subordinate, role to that of the Navy and its Marine Corps. Marine personnel constituted the bulk of the combat troops employed. The objective of this campaign was "to secure control of sea communications through the Central Pacific by isolating and neutralizing the Carolines and by the establishment of sea and air bases for operations against Japanese sea routes and long-range air attacks against the Japanese home land." Its success would provide steppingstones from which the Americans could threaten further attack westward toward the Philippines, Formosa, and Japan itself, and would gain bases from which the Army Air Forces’ new very long range bombers, the B-29’s, could strike at Japan’s heartland. Recognizing and accepting the challenge, the Japanese Navy suffered heavy and irreplaceable losses in the accompanying Battle of the Philippine Sea; and the islands after capture became the base for all the massive air attacks on Japan, beginning in Nov. 1944. In the operations described in the present volume, landings against strong opposition demonstrated the soundness of the amphibious doctrine and techniques evolved out of hard experience in preceding Pacific operations. Bitter inland fighting followed the landings, with Army and Marine Corps divisions engaged side by side. The author’s account and corresponding Marine Corps histories of these operations provide ample opportunity to study the differences in the fighting techniques of the two services. Dr. Crowl also deals frankly with one of the best-known controversies of World War II, that of Smith versus Smith, but concludes that it was the exception to generally excellent interservice co-operation.
The Capture Of Makin
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Author : Center of Military History
language : en
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Release Date : 1990
The Capture Of Makin written by Center of Military History and has been published by Government Printing Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Makin Atoll, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943 categories.
The Capture Of Makin
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Author : United States. War Department. General Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
The Capture Of Makin written by United States. War Department. General Staff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Makin Atoll, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943 categories.
United States Army In Wwii The Pacific Seizure Of The Gilberts And Marshalls
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Author : Philip A. Crowl
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
United States Army In Wwii The Pacific Seizure Of The Gilberts And Marshalls written by Philip A. Crowl and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
[Includes 4 tables, 3 charts, 27 maps and 90 illustrations] Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls deals with amphibious warfare as waged by American forces against the Japanese-held atolls of the Central Pacific during World War II... The atoll operations described in this volume were amphibious from beginning to end. They were not simple seaborne hit-and-run raids of the Dieppe type. The objective was to secure the atolls as steppingstones to the next advance. The islands were relatively small, permitting continual naval and air support of the ground operations. Some outstanding examples of the co-ordination of fire support by artillery, naval gunfire, and air are found in this book. The advantages of simple plans and the disadvantages of the more complicated will stand out for the careful reader. The story of the capture of these atolls of Micronesia offers some of the best examples of combined operations that are available in the annals of modern war. Ground, sea, and air components were always present, and the effectiveness with which they were combined and co-ordinated accounts in large measure for the rapid success enjoyed in these instances by American arms. From the point of view of strategy, the significance of this volume lies in the fact that it tells the story of the beginnings of the drive across the Central Pacific toward the Japanese homeland. This concept of defeating Japan by pushing directly westward from Hawaii through the island bases of the mid-Pacific was traditional in American strategic thinking, but had never been put to test and was seriously challenged in some quarters. As is shown here, the test was first made in the campaigns against the Gilberts and Marshalls, the outcome was successful, and the experience gained was of inestimable value in planning for the subsequent conduct of the war in the Pacific.
Military Affairs Catalog
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Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Military Affairs Catalog written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Military history categories.