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Artist James Tissot compiled photographs of his work in three albums, which are reproduced in this book.
Author : Philip D. Birkitt
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Guadalcanal Island (Solomon Islands)
ISBN : 1563110539
Artist James Tissot compiled photographs of his work in three albums, which are reproduced in this book.
Author : William H. Bartsch
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1623492203
Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use. The Japanese Army countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the command of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki. The attack that followed would prove to be the first of four attempts by the Japanese over six months to retake the airfield, resulting in some of the most vicious fighting of the Pacific War. During the initial battle on the night of August 20–21, 1942, Marines wiped out Ichiki’s men, who—imbued with “victory fever”—had expected a quick and easy victory. William H. Bartsch draws on correspondence, interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official war records, including those translated from Japanese sources, to offer an intensely human narrative of the failed attempt to recapture Guadalcanal’s vital airfield.
Author : William Bruce Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 113400382X
This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unpublished documents this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for the Pacific.
Author : Geoffrey Roecker
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN :
"My first telegram came Sep. 3 1942 that my son was missing in action. And the next telegram came Aug. 18 1943 that he was Declared Dead. Till this day I do not know what happened to him." Mrs. Ann M. Lyons, August 7, 1957. Between 1942 and 1944, nearly four hundred Marines virtually vanished in the jungles, seas, and skies of Guadalcanal. They were the victims of enemy ambushes and friendly fire, hard fighting and poor planning, their deaths witnessed by dozens or not at all. They were buried in field graves, in cemeteries as unknowns, or left where they fell. They were classified as "missing," as "not recovered," as "presumed dead." And in the years that followed, their families wondered at their fates and how an administrative decision could close the book on sons, brothers, and husbands without healing the wounds left by their absence. 'Leaving Mac Behind' reconstructs the lives, last moments, and legacies of some of these men. Original records, eyewitness accounts, and recent discoveries shed new light on the lost graves of Guadalcanal's missing Marines--and the ongoing efforts to bring them home.
Author : American Legion. Annual National Convention
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Veterans
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Author : University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Pacific Collection
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Oceania
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Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
Page : 2184 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 1992
Category : American literature
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Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Eric M Bergerud
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
A chronicle of the Pacific Air War in World War II draws on interviews with surviving veterans of all duties to paint a detailed look at the war in the sky.
Author : Keir Reeves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317478991
Battlefield Events: Landscape, Commemoration and Heritage is an investigative and analytical study into the way in which significant landscapes of war have been constructed and imagined through events over time to articulate specific narratives and denote consequence and identity. The book charts the ways in which a number of landscapes of war have been created and managed from an events perspective, and how the processes of remembering (along with silencing and forgetting) at these places has influenced the management of these warscapes in the present day. With chapters from authors based in seven different countries on three continents and comparative case studies, this book has a truly international perspective. This timely longitudinal analysis of war commemoration events, the associated landscapes, travel to these destinations and management strategies will be valuable reading for all those interested in war landscapes and events.