Book Description
Dog company, Second Battalion, 37th Regiment, Fifth Marine Battalion
Author : Alfred R. Stone
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Dog company, Second Battalion, 37th Regiment, Fifth Marine Battalion
Author : Lynn Kessler
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Survivors of one of the fiercest battles of the war in the Pacific tell their dramatic stories in this collection of oral histories.
Author : Sid Phillips
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0425246299
Sid Phillips, a World War II Marine Corps hero featured in HBO®'s The Pacific, offers up an invaluable firsthand account of the war against Japan. A mortarman with H-2-1 of the legendary 1st Marine Division, Sid was only seventeen years old when he entered combat with the Japanese. Some two years later, when he returned home, the island fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester had turned Sid into an "Old Timer" by Marine standards, and more: he left as a boy, but came home a man. These are his memoirs, the humble and candid tales that Sid collected during a Pacific odyssey spanning half the globe, from the grueling boot camp at Parris Island, to the coconut groves of Guadalcanal, to the romantic respite of Australia. Sid recalls his encounters with icons like Chesty Puller, General Vandergrift, Eleanor Roosevelt, and his boyhood friend, Eugene Sledge. He remembers the rain of steel from Japanese bombers and battleships, the brutality of the tropical elements, and the haunting notion of being expendable. This is the story of how Sid stood shoulder to shoulder with his Marine brothers to discover the inner strength and deep faith necessary to survive the dark, early days, of World War II in the Pacific.
Author : James Dean Ladd
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612510175
Faithful Warriors is a memoir of World War II in the Pacific by a combat veteran of the 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. Written with award-winning author Steven Weingartner, Col. Ladd’s book recounts his experiences as a junior officer in some of the fiercest fighting of the war, during the amphibious invasions of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian. Ladd's recollections and descriptions of life--and death--on the far-flung battlefronts of the Pacific War are vividly rendered, and augmented by the personal recollections of many of the men who served with him in his wartime journey across the Pacific. This vividly written memoir will stir the memories of those who lived during these trying times and will help future generations of readers to understand the realities of the Pacific War.
Author : Eric M. Hammel
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1610607252
Author : Patrick F. Caruso
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2007-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0817354484
On February 19, 1945, the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions stormed ashore from a naval support force. Among them was green young lieutenant Pat Caruso who became de facto company commander when the five officers ranking him were killed or wounded. He led his rapidly diminishing force steadily forward for the next few days, when a day’s gains were measured in yards. Caruso was eventually wounded himself and was evacuated. Realizing that the heroism of his comrades would be lost by the decimation of his unit, Caruso latched onto any paper he could find and filled every blank space with his memory of the fighting. This edition has a new foreword and index, boasts nine new photographs, and a map of the action. It resumes its place as a classic account of the experience of being in close, direct, and constant contact with a determined enemy at close quarters. Many did not survive; those who did were changed forever.
Author : Richard F. Newcomb
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2002-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805070712
Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
Author : Larry Earl Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393062342
An account of the 1945 battle documents the significant losses on both sides, the controversy surrounding the famous photograph by Joe Rosenthal, and the alleged suicide of Japanese general Tadamichi Juribayashi.
Author : Talbot Rain
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595301908
With the world at war, a law degree in hand and recently married, Talbot Rain knew his destiny. Along with his brother and his friends they joined the United States Marine Corps. He begins his journey with boot camp where he learns what being a Marine is really all about. He then heads to Officer Candidate School where he trains to become an officer. With his training finished, Talbot is sent to the Pacific to see what lies ahead for a first lieutenant as the battle rages on with Japan. Talbot explains first-hand how it felt to be a Marine landing on Iwo Jima. Strength, courage and humility are all told as Talbot fights alongside other Marines to an Allied victory at Iwo Jima. As tides turn, Talbot finds himself as a General's aide during the Occupation of Japan. And now, more than half a century later, Talbot finds the memories flow again of long ago battles, friendships and victories.
Author : Robert S. Burrell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 160344517X
In February 1945, some 80,000 U.S. Marines attacked the heavily defended fortress that the Japanese had constructed on the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Leaders of the Army Air Forces said they needed the airfields there to provide fighter escort for their B-29 bombers. At the cost of 28,000 American casualties, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions dutifully conquered this desolate piece of hell with a determination and sacrifice that have become legendary in the annals of war, immortalized in the photograph of six Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. But the Army Air Forces’ fighter operations on Iwo Jima subsequently proved both unproductive and unnecessary. After the fact, a number of other justifications were generated to rationalize this tragically expensive battle. Ultimately, misleading statistics were presented to contend that the number of lives saved by B-29 emergency landings on Iwo Jima outweighed the cost of its capture. In The Ghosts of Iwo Jima, Captain Robert S. Burrell masterfully reconsiders the costs of taking Iwo Jima and its role in the war effort. His thought-provoking analysis also highlights the greater contribution of Iwo Jima’s valiant dead: They inspired a reverence for the Marine Corps that proved critical to its institutional survival and its embodiment of American national spirit. From the 7th War Loan Campaign of 1945 through the flag-raising at Ground Zero in 2001, the immortal image of Iwo Jima has become a symbol of American patriotism itself. Burrell’s searching account of this fabled island conflict will advance our understanding of World War II and its continuing legacy for the twenty-first century. At last, the battle’s ghosts may unveil its ultimate, and most crucial, lessons.