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The United States Marine Corps in World War II : the one-volume history, from Wake to Tsingtao, by the men who fought in the Pacific and by distinguished Marine experts, authors, and newspapermen

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Title

The United States Marine Corps in World War II : the one-volume history, from Wake to Tsingtao, by the men who fought in the Pacific and by distinguished Marine experts, authors, and newspapermen

Call No

D767

Authors

Smith, S. E. (Stanley E.), 1921-

Subjects

United States. Marine Corps--History--World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

Language

English

Published

New York : Random House, [1969]

Publication Desc

xxi, 965 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ;

LCCN

67022643

Dimensions

25 cm

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General Note

List of maps: Wake ; Corregidor ; Central Pacific ; Midway ; Guadalcanal ; Southwest Pacific ; Makin raid ; New Georgia ; Bougainville ; Western New Britain ; tarawa ; Roy-namur ; Saipan ; Tinian ; Guam ; Pulau ; Iwo Jima ; Okinawa.

Content Note

Part I.Wake to midway : beginnings end. Wake: the enemy strikes / Colonel Robert D Heinel, Jr. -- Invasion attempt / John Toland -- Attrition / Rear Admiral W. Scott Cunningham and Lydell Sims -- Last man off Wake / Colonel Walter L.J. Baylor and Cecil Carnes -- “There are Japanese in the bushes” / Colonel James P.F. Devereux -- “Hard, squarely in the face” / Hans Whitney -- POW from Guam / Martin Boyle -- Boot camp days / Jim Lucas -- My duty / General of the Army Douglas MacArthur -- Life on the rock - between bombs / Clark Lee -- Corregidor: prelude to invasion / James H. and William M. Belote -- Last stand of the 4th Marines / Hanson W Baldwin -- postmortem / Fred Stolley -- Escape / Sergeant Reed Carlos Chamberlain -- An officer details his capture / Captain John Clark -- Midway strike / Walter Lord -- A rectangular piece of enemy / Thomas F Moore Jr.
Part II. Guadalcanal : offensive in the Solomons. Underway / Richard Tregaskis -- D-Day: the landings / Robert Leckie -- First blood / Brigadier General Samuel B. Griffith III -- Diary of a coast watcher / Captain W.F. Martin Clemens -- The Tanambogo- Gavutu fight / Richard W. Johnston -- Aboard the doomed Quincy / Major Warren P. Baker -- “Serious, very serious...” / T. Grady Gallant -- The guns at Henderson Field / Lieutenant General Pedro a de la Valle -- Alone / George McMillan -- “I fired four times and got two of them” / Corporal Nicholas Sileo -- Here was hell / Robert Leckie -- Long night on the Tenaru / Roger Butterworth -- “Leave us alone, we're too busy killing Japs!” / General Clifton B. Cates -- The grove : mop-up / Richard Tregaskis -- Carlson’s Makin Raid / Lieutenant W.S. LeFrancois -- Bloody Ridge / Colonel William McKennon -- A ruthless and dangerous foe / Hanson W Baldwin -- “Are you going to hold this beachhead?” / General Alexander A. Vandegrift and Robert B. Asprey -- Nine to one / Major Marion E. Carl -- Into the valley / John Hersey -- Correspondent at the Matanikau / John Graham Dowling -- The bombardment / Colonel Walter L.J. Baylor and Cecil Carnes -- The Blue Goose / Captain John DeChant -- The Argonne Conference / Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey and J. Bryan III -- “Blood for the Emperor! Marine, you die!” / Burke Davis -- “I picked up a machine gun...” / Sergeant Mitchell Paige -- They just went on up and over / Ira Wolfert -- Down instantly, nose first... / Captain Joe Foss and Walter Simmons -- Jungle patrol / Captain Herbert Merrillat -- Eyewitness to history / Sergeant James W. Hurlbut -- The campaign analyzed / Fletcher Pratt -- Valiant deeds by great men / General Alexander A. Vandegrift and Robert B. Asprey.
Part III. Munda to Cape Gloucester : Reduction of Rabaul. Occupation of the Russells / Jim Lucas -- The commandant addresses new officers / Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb -- “We are going to ditch” / Captain John Abney -- The March to Viru Harbor / Anthony P. Coulis -- Corry’s boys / Brigadier General Samuel B. Griffith II -- Battle without a name / Robert W. Blake -- First mission / Captain John M. Foster -- Death on the Munda Trail / Robert W Blake -- Bougainville : beach head and swamp / John Monks, Jr. -- Evacuating the wounded / Captain Milton Spurling -- Cibik’s Ridge / Lieutenant Steve Cibik with Gerald Frank and James D. Horan -- “Goodwill to all men...” / Colonel Gregory S. Boyington -- The struggle for Borgen Bay : first phase / George McMillan -- Suicide creek / ASA Bordages -- “On a rowboat at Rabaul” / Colonel Gregory S. Boyington.
Part IV. Tarawa to Peleliu : battering the Empire. “What we do here” / Major General Julian C. Smith -- First day / Richard W. Johnston -- “Together we prayed over our friend” / Jim Lucas -- “The dead were too close around us” / Sergeant Gene Ward -- Second and third days / Robert Sherrod -- “So I dropped my pack” / Sergeant C. Peter Zurlinden -- Mop-up / Captain Earl J. Wilson and other correspondents -- Diary of a chaplain / Captain W. Wyeth Willard, Ch.C. -- Tarawa : observation and analysis / Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith -- The nation’s gratitude / Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz -- Operation Flintlock / Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr. -- Saipan's Blue Beach / Sergeant David Dempsey -- Green beach landings / Robert Sherrod -- Hill 500 / Anonymous -- The relief of Major General Ralph Smith / Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith -- Epitaph / John A McGruder -- Tank battle / A transcript -- Guam finale / Robert Martin -- A sense of impiety / Lieutenant David M. Brown -- Peleliu landing / Tom Lea -- Put me down for last watch / Russell Davis -- Coral comes high / George Hunt -- The bloody ridges / Russell Davis -- Peleliu concluded / George McMillan -- Marine air groups at Leyte / Captain John DeChant.
Part V. Iwo Jima to Okinawa : death of an Empire. Invasion / Richard Newcomb -- A correspondent at the battle / John Lardner -- The friendly dead / T. Grady Gallant -- “Those sons-of-bitches killed my buddy!” / Richard Wheeler -- Logistics afloat / Captain Raymond Henri -- “Corpsman! Corpsman!” / Alan R. Matthews -- Scouts-snipers platoon / Bryce Walton -- The fall of Suribachi / Sergeant David Dempsey -- Kuribayashi's last stand / Richard Newcomb -- How do you stay alive? / Alvin Josephy -- “Uncommon valor was a common virtue” / Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith -- “My presence...could have yielded very little” / General Alexander A. Vandegrift and Robert B. Asprey -- Life in a Japanese POW camp / Martin Boyle -- Marine on mission / Captain Walter R. Mansfield -- Okinawa armed with a pencil / John Lardner -- Last chapter / Ernie Pyle -- “It was the first I'd seen of April...” / Lieutenant David Brown -- First assault on the Naha Shuri Line / Russell Davis -- Sugar Loaf and final assault / Fletcher Pratt -- The TAF at work / John DeChant -- Yokasuka landing / Sergeant John Birch -- Wake revisited / Sergeant Ernie Harwell -- Surrender at Tsingtao / Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr.