United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909
Author : William R. Braisted
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 1958-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780891979715
Author : William R. Braisted
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 1958-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780891979715
Author : William Reynolds Braisted
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Pacific Area
ISBN : 9780837121321
Author : William Reynolds Braisted
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Naval history
ISBN :
Author : William R. Braisted
Publisher : Irvington Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 1958
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780829003734
Author : William Reynolds Braisted
Publisher : Austin : University of Texas Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 1958
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Anna Marie Hager
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520030350
Author : United States. Department of the Navy. Library
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Bibliography
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Emile Cornebise
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 078649770X
A study of U.S.-Chinese relations involving the U.S. Army, this work focuses at the personnel level on the Army's service in China. While studies have been published of the U.S. Marines' and U.S. Navy's involvement in China, little attention has been given the Army's missions in this theater. Operations in China were a key part of the history and traditions of the 9th, 14th, 15th and 31st Regiments, whose coats of arms still feature dragons as symbols of their service there. Many who served in the 15th in China went on to impressive careers as general officers, prompting one soldier to ask "what other infantry regiment of those days can boast of such an alumni list?" Also covered is the 31st Regiments' involvement in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the prelude of the coming of World War II in Asia.
Author : Joseph Arthur Simon
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0807172456
Joseph Arthur Simon’s The Greatest of All Leathernecks is the first comprehensive biography of John Archer Lejeune (1867–1942), a Louisiana native and the most innovative and influential leader of the United States Marine Corps in the twentieth century. As commandant of the Marine Corps from 1920 to 1929, Lejeune reorganized, revitalized, and modernized the force by developing its new and permanent mission of amphibious assault. Before that transformation, the corps was a constabulary infantry force used mainly to protect American business interests in the Caribbean, a mission that did not place it as a significant contributor to the United States defense establishment. The son of a plantation owner from Pointe Coupee Parish, Lejeune enrolled at Louisiana State University in 1881, aged fourteen. Three years later, he entered the U.S. Naval Academy, afterward serving for two years at sea as a midshipman. In 1890, he transferred to the Marines, where he ascended quickly in rank. During the Spanish-American War, Lejeune commanded and landed Marines at San Juan, Puerto Rico, to rescue American sympathizers who had been attacked by Spanish troops. A few years later, he arrived with a battalion of Marines at the Isthmus of Panama—part of Colombia at the time—securing it for Panama and making possible the construction of the Panama Canal by the United States. He went on to lead Marine expeditions to Cuba and Veracruz, Mexico. During World War I, Lejeune was promoted to major general and given command of an entire U.S. Army division. After the war, Lejeune became commandant of the Marine Corps, a role he used to develop its new mission of amphibious assault, transforming the corps from an ancillary component of the U.S. military into a vibrant and essential branch. He also created the Marine Corps Reserve, oversaw the corps’s initial use of aviation, and founded the Marine Corps Schools, the intellectual planning center of the corps that currently exists as the Marine Corps University. As Simon masterfully illustrates, the mission and value of the corps today spring largely from the efforts and vision of Lejeune.
Author : Edward S Miller
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1612511465
Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first time the full significance of War Plan Orange—the U.S. Navy's strategy to defeat Japan, formulated over the forty years prior to World War II.