New Guinea The Us Army Campaigns Of World War Ii Pamphlet

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Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160899362
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Guinea: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet) written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH 72-9. U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Other related products: Anzio: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II --Print Paper Pamphlet can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00275-2 Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East -- Print Paperback formatis available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00160-8 Fueling the Fires of Resistance: Army Air Forces Special Operations in the Balkans During World War 2 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-070-00699-5 World War II resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/world-war-ii

Author : Edward J. Drea
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781515284307
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Guinea written by Edward J. Drea and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose. Highly relevant today, World War II has much to teach us, not only about the profession of arms, but also about military preparedness, global strategy, and combined operations in the coalition war against fascism. During the next several years, the U.S. Army will participate in the nation's 50th anniversary commemoration of World War II. The commemoration will include the publication of various materials to help educate Americans about that war. The works produced will provide great opportunities to learn about and renew pride in an Army that fought so magnificently in what has been called "the mighty endeavor." World War II was waged on land, on sea, and in the air over several diverse theaters of operation for approximately six years. The following essay is one of a series of campaign studies highlighting those struggles that, with their accompanying suggestions for further reading, are designed to introduce you to one of the Army's significant military feats from that war.

Author : U. S. Army U.S. Army Center of Military History
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505597332
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II written by U. S. Army U.S. Army Center of Military History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of 40 illustrated books that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during World War II. Each book describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.

Author : James P. Duffy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593471725
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War at the End of the World written by James P. Duffy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II—General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea. “A meaty, engrossing narrative history… This will likely stand as the definitive account of the New Guinea campaign.”—The Christian Science Monitor One American soldier called it “a green hell on earth.” Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps—New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops. Japanese forces numbering some 600,000 men began landing in January 1942, determined to seize the island as a cornerstone of the Empire’s strategy to knock Australia out of the war. Allied Commander-in-Chief General Douglas MacArthur committed 340,000 Americans, as well as tens of thousands of Australian, Dutch, and New Guinea troops, to retake New Guinea at all costs. What followed was a four-year campaign that involved some of the most horrific warfare in history. At first emboldened by easy victories throughout the Pacific, the Japanese soon encountered in New Guinea a roadblock akin to the Germans’ disastrous attempt to take Moscow, a catastrophic setback to their war machine. For the Americans, victory in New Guinea was the first essential step in the long march towards the Japanese home islands and the ultimate destruction of Hirohito’s empire. Winning the war in New Guinea was of critical importance to MacArthur. His avowed “I shall return” to the Philippines could only be accomplished after taking the island. In this gripping narrative, historian James P. Duffy chronicles the most ruthless combat of the Pacific War, a fight complicated by rampant tropical disease, violent rainstorms, and unforgiving terrain that punished both Axis and Allied forces alike. Drawing on primary sources, War at the End of the World fills in a crucial gap in the history of World War II while offering readers a narrative of the first rank.

Author : Samuel Milner
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781515027829
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victory in Papua written by Samuel Milner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a companion volume to the one on Guadalcanal in the series on the war in the Pacific. Both record the operations designed to halt the advance of the enemy toward the vital transpacific line of communications with Australia and secure Australia as a base. Success in Papua and Guadalcanal, achieved in February 1943, put the Allied forces in a position to neutralize Rabaul and, this accomplished, to advance to the Philippines. The present volume concentrates on the action of one United States Army division. In telling the story of a comparatively limited number of troops, the author has been able to present the combat experience of small units in sharper focus than has been possible in most of the other full-scale campaign volumes. The campaign abounds in lessons. Of these one of the most vital is the frequent necessity for all commanders to evaluate their own actions by asking themselves this question: "How could I have helped, how should I have helped, how can I help my subordinates to accomplish their assigned tasks?"

Author : Stephen R. Taaffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MacArthur's Jungle War written by Stephen R. Taaffe and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His book tells not only how victory was gained through a combination of technology, tactics, and army-navy cooperation but also how the New Guinea campaign exemplified the strategic differences that plagued the Pacific War, since many high-ranking officers considered it a diversionary tactic rather than a key offensive.

Author : Edward J. Drea
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Guinea written by Edward J. Drea and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH 72-9. U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Other related products: Anzio: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II --Print Paper Pamphlet can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00275-2 Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East -- Print Paperback formatis available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00160-8 Fueling the Fires of Resistance: Army Air Forces Special Operations in the Balkans During World War 2 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-070-00699-5 World War II resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/world-war-ii

Author : Lex McAulay
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MacArthur's Eagles written by Lex McAulay and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The successful use of strategic U.S. air power in the South West Pacific during World War II enabled Gen. Douglas MacArthur to advance from Australia to Japan. This book examines the inexorable thrust of the general's U.S. Army's 5th Air Force, under air commander Gen. George C. Kenney, in the hard-hitting campaigns against the Japanese Army Air Force bases in New Guinea. During 1943 and 1944, the 5th Air Force destroyed its Japanese opponent three times, eventually opening the way for the advance--ahead of schedule--of MacArthur's Allied forces through New Guinea to the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. No other book describes these crucial operations in such breadth or detail. From the national level to the individual fighter pilot's level, the author chronicles what happened. Of particular merit is Lex McAuley's portrayal of the Japanese side of the conflict, including an inside look at the problems of the Japanese Air Force high command. The author explains the varying degrees of understanding the concept of air power exhibited by both Japanese and U.S. commanders, including not only the type of aircraft produced by each country but the ways in which the aircraft were used. Air combat missions come vividly and dramatically to life through the use of oral history interviews that lend an authoritative air to the book.

Author : U. S. Army U.S. Army Center of Military History
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505597271
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U. S. Army Campaigns of World War II: Papua written by U. S. Army U.S. Army Center of Military History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of 40 illustrated books that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during World War II. Each book describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147280466X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Army in World War II written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1941 Japanese Pacific onslaught saw the defeat of Allied forces on all fronts, with the Philippines, Netherlands East Indies, and Commonwealth possessions falling under their control. During 1942-43, the Japanese consolidated their gains and redeployed forces in an attempt to break the Southern Lifeline between America and Australia. These plans were affected by the defeat at Midway, which forced the Japanese onto the defensive. This book examines Japanese forces employed in the follow-on conquests of 1942-43, and describes how unit organization, weaponry, and equipment were found lacking in the harsh environment of the Solomon Islands and on New Guinea.