Pacific legacy : image and memory from World War II in the Pacific / Rex Alan Smith & Gerald A. Meehl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Rex Alan.

Contributor:

Meehl, Gerald A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area.

World War, 1939-1945.

History, Military.

Pacific Area--History, Military--20th century.

Pacific Area.

World War, 1939-1945--United States.

Physical Description:

316 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Abbeville Press, [2002]

Contents:

Pacific War Chronology 8

Chapter 1 This Is No Drill! The Attack on Pearl Harbor 11

Pearl Harbor 24

Remember Wake Island 34

The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo 40

Chapter 2 The Time-Buyers: Losing the Philippines 47

The Bataan Death March 58

Surrendering Corregidor 60

Chapter 3 The Long Road Back: Invading Guadalcanal 71

Guadalcanal 86

Souvenir Mania 96

Tulagi and the PT Boats 98

Munda and the Evolution of an Island Base 104

Bora Bora, the Island Paradise 110

Chapter 4 A Thousand Honored Dead: Overcoming Tarawa 115

Tarawa 128

Events at Sea 142

Guam, Saipan, and Tinian: The B:29 Bases 144

On the Sidelines 166

Peleliu: The Unnecessary Sacrifice 176

Submarines 196

They Also Serve Who Stand and Wait 198

Returning to the Philippines 204

Chapter 5 Uncommon Valor a Common Virtue: Securing Iwo Jima 217

Iwo Jima 228

The Interpreters 240

Pacific Island Natives 246

The Carriers 250

Okinawa: The Last Land Battle 252

Chapter 6 Ending the Pacific War: Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki 263

The Atom Bombs and the Japanese Surrender 278

The Pacific War in Hollywood 302

Posters for the Home Front 304.

Notes:

Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308) and index.

ISBN:

0789207613

OCLC:

49327054