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A Special Valor : The U.S. Marines and the Pacific War
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheeler, Richard.
- Series:
- Bluejacket Bks.
- Bluejacket books A special valor
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Marine Corps--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Islands of the Pacific.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- United States. Marine Corps--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Special Valor
- A Special Valor
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Naval Institute Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- If the U.S. Marines gave birth to a legend in the halls of Montezuma in the nineteenth century, they added glorious luster to it with their heroism and victories against the Japanese in World War II. For this vivid, foxhole view of the Marines' war, Richard Wheeler draws extensively on frontline eyewitness accounts of Marines and combat journalists and backs up their stories with official U.S. action reports and captured Japanese materials. First published in 1983, the book has earned praise as a popular, one-volume history of all the battles fought by the Marine Corps in the Pacific campaign.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Prologue: The Corps Finds a Mission ; 1. War Comes to Wake Island ; 2. Submission and an End to Pride ; 3. Into Hostile Jungles; 5. Toward Edson's Ridge; 6. Vandegrift Reaches Out ; 7. Defeat of the Sendai ; 8. Both Sides Gird Anew ; 9. The Issue Decided ; 10. Up the Solomons Ladder ; 11. Bougainville ; 12. ""Operation Galvanic"" ; 13. FIrst Day on Betio ; 14. VIctory at a Price ; 15. The Rains of New Britain ; 16. Quick Win in the Marshalls ; 17. On Southern Saipan; 18. The Drive Northward; 19. Taking Out Train ; 20. Guam Repossessed ; 21. Blunder in the Palsus
- 22. The Approach to Fortress Iwo 23. From Dawn to Dusk on D-day ; 24. A Flag for Suribachi ; 25. On to Kitano Point ; 26. Convergence in the Ryukyus ; 27. Okinawa Secured; 28. The Last Act ; Bibliography ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781612514413
- 1612514413
- OCLC:
- 862049795
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