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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

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.

Central Pacific Campaigns And Operations

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Author : Ray Merriam
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-02-11

Central Pacific Campaigns And Operations written by Ray Merriam and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-11 with History categories.

Merriam Press Military Monograph 124. Fourth Edition (February 2012). First published as Chapters IX and X of The Campaigns of the Pacific War as part of the USSBS series in 1946.Primarily concerned with naval operations, including naval and land-based air operations, it covers both American and Japanese plans and operations in this theater of the war.The bulk of this work is composed of more than a dozen appendices, many of which are, or contain, extensive charts and tables of information, including orders of battle, strengths, casualties, losses, rosters, postwar question and answer historical interrogations, and translations of Japanese directives, operations orders, dispatches, reports, war diary excerpts, etc.Very important and useful source of highly detailed information.Contents: Chapter 1: Central Pacific Operations: From 1 June 1943 to 1 March 1944 Including the Gilbert-Marshall Islands Campaign; Appendix 68: Strength of Opposing Ground Forces, Casualties and Japanese Garrison Strength in the Central Pacific; Appendix 69: Extracts from Official Reports of the Imperial Japanese Government Concerning the Gilbert-Marshalls Campaign; Chapter 2: The Central Pacific Campaign, 1 March to 1 September 1944, Including the Occupation of the Marianas; Appendix 71: Combined Fleet Ultrasecret Operation Order 73; Appendix 72: Imperial Headquarters Directive 373; Appendix 73: Combined Fleet Ultrasecret Dispatch 041213; Appendix 74: United States Forces Involved; Appendix 75: Chain of Command, Japanese Forces in Marianas–Carolines, 1 June 1944; Appendix 76: Order of Battle, Defense Forces in Ogasawara—Marianas—Carolines, 1 June; Appendix 77: 1 June 1944—Assigned Strength, Base Air Forces, Marianas and Carolines (No Army Air in Central Pacific); Appendix 78: Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19-20 June 1944 Task Organization—First Mobile Fleet; Appendix 79: First Mobile Fleet Classified No. 1048 (5 September 1944): Detailed Battle Report of AGO Operations; Appendix 80: From the Files of the Navy Board of Merit; Appendix 81: Translation of Japanese Documents; 4 maps; 14 appendices.

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.

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 History 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.

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.

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.

Storm Over The Gilberts

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Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
language : en
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Release Date : 1978

Storm Over The Gilberts written by Edwin Palmer Hoyt and has been published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.

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

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