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Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Defense of Wake written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory J. W. Urwin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803295629
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Facing Fearful Odds written by Gregory J. W. Urwin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing Fearful Odds is based on interviews and correspondence gathered from more than seventy of Wake's American defenders and on research in archival and printed sources. The book covers the planning and political struggles that began Wake Island's transformation into a naval air station and submarine base, the U.S. Navy's eleventh-hour efforts to garrison and fortify Wake, and the various air, sea, and land attacks that resulted in the atoll's capture by the Imperial Japanese Navy. This study attempts to correct the myths that shroud what happened on the atoll. - from preface.
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Author : Lieutenant Colonel R.D. Heinl Jr. USMC
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782892753
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Marines In World War II - The Defense Of Wake [Illustrated Edition] written by Lieutenant Colonel R.D. Heinl Jr. USMC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 23 photos and 8 maps and charts. The story of the immortal heroic defence of the American outpost on Wake Island by a handful of marines and civilians against an overwhelming forces of the Japanese. “During December 1941, the stubborn defense of Wake by less than 450 Marines galvanized not only the American public but their comrades in arms. In days of disaster then, as of uncertainty later, the thought of Wake and its defenders encouraged Marines to hang on longer, and to fight more resolutely. Small in time and numbers though the action was by comparison with Guadalcanal or the other great battles to come, Wake will never be forgotten. “To my mind, in addition to the obvious military lessons which may be drawn from any battle, be it victory or defeat, the defense of Wake points up two soldierly characteristics which may well be remembered by Marines. These are military adaptability, and the realization that, first and always one must be prepared to face ultimate close ground combat with the enemy. “The officers and men of the 1st Defense Battalion on Wake were artillerymen of a highly specialized type; those of VMF-211 were aviation technicians. neither group let its specialized training or background prevent it from fighting courageously and well as basic infantry when the chips were down. Despite its specialization, each group did the best it could with what it had. “These capabilities and attributes, I submit, should characterize Marines now as they characterized those Marines on Wake, who, though they were outnumbers and eventually overwhelmed, were never outfought.-A.A. VANDEGRIFT, General, U.S. Marine Corps”
Author : Gregory J. W. Urwin
Publisher : Naval Inst Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591148999
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victory in Defeat written by Gregory J. W. Urwin and published by Naval Inst Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that draws on interviews with American POWs, as well as their Japanese captors, and diaries secretly kept by prison-camp inmates, the author of Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island offers a moving history of the incarceration of the American defenders of Wake Island after their surrender to the Japanese during World War II.
Author : United States Marine Corps (Navy).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Defense of Wake written by United States Marine Corps (Navy). and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Defense of Wake written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Cressman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Magnificent Fight written by Robert Cressman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Patrick Sinnott Devereux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of Wake Island written by James Patrick Sinnott Devereux and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This account of the defense of Wake Island was written after five years without benefit of notes and records, which were destroyed by the Japanese or by us to prevent capture. This account is as accurate as the author could make it from his own recollection, available records and the recollection of other Wake Island veterans, both officers and men. The Navy Department is in no way responsible for any points of view expressed nor for the factual accuracy of statements made." --Page [6] Author's Note.
Author : Robert J. Cressman
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512305
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book "A Magnificent Fight" written by Robert J. Cressman and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts how the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll. The author uses extensive Japanese materials--many never before used or available-- to identify the enemy order of battle and the roles each unit played in the drama.
Author : Ralph F. Wetterhahn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147666997X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Early Air War in the Pacific written by Ralph F. Wetterhahn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. But after major setbacks at Midway and Guadalcanal, the empire's expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh analysis of the air war in the Pacific during the early phases of World War II. Details are included from two expeditions conducted by the author that reveal the location of an American pilot missing in the Philippines since 1942 and clear up a controversial account involving famed Japanese ace Saburo Sakai and U.S. Navy pilot James "Pug" Southerland.
