The Recapture Of Guam

Author : Cyril J. O'Brien
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788135376
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberation written by Cyril J. O'Brien and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of rare and priceless manuscripts from museums around the world, this survey features nearly 200 photographic facsimiles that depict ancestors of the modern book. Contributions from numerous people and cultures include ancient sources of Greece and Rome, central and southern Asia, Africa, pre-Columbian America, the Far East, and Europe.

Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Recapture of Guam written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : O. R. Lodge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Recapture of Guam (1944) written by O. R. Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recapture of Guam written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cyril J. O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Liberation written by Cyril J. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Wrinn
Publisher : Storyteller Books, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recapture of Guam written by Daniel Wrinn and published by Storyteller Books, LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping insight about the liberation of Guam." - Reviewer Guam's Japanese garrison fought practically to the last man. By invading Guam, US forces were not only getting access to a fine harbor and a number of airfields to use in future operations but were also liberating a US territory captured by the Japanese in 1941. The attack on Guam was intended to begin only days after the landings on Saipan but was postponed for a month. US forces used the delay to make the preliminary bombardment and air attacks extremely thorough and to ensure that offshore obstacles to landing craft were cleared efficiently. The landing force included both Marine and Army units from General Geiger's III Amphibious Corps, in all 55,000 strong. General Takashina commanded 18,000 defenders, who had built a typically elaborate network of bunkers, artillery emplacements, and other fortifications. This narrative recounts the story of the liberation of Guam in vivid, gritty detail. Explore the fascinating feats of strategy, planning, and bravery, handing the Allies what would eventually become a victory over the Pacific Theater and an end to Imperialist Japanese expansion.

Author : O. R. Lodge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780915266166
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Recapture of Guam written by O. R. Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Marine Corps Monograph of The Recapture of Guam, the "decisive triumph of combined arms over a formidable Japanese force..."

Author : Major O.R. Lodge, USMC
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782892869
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marines In World War II - The Recapture Of Guam [Illustrated Edition] written by Major O.R. Lodge, USMC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Marianas group of islands is the American possession of Guam, U.S. territory since 1898; it was the captured by the Japanese soon after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor and served as a symbol of the Japanese expansion. The American Forces sailed into view of Guam in 1944 determined to recapture the island for strategic and political purposes, but knew that the Japanese defenders take a heavy toll of them from their prepared positions. The story of the capture of the island is an epic of courage, bloodshed, fierce resistance by the Japanese and the indomitable will to conquer of the U.S. Marines. Contains 99 photos and 32 maps and charts. “I have always had a feeling of deep satisfaction in having been the commander of one of the assault elements that returned the American flag to Guam. The island once more stands ready to fulfill its destiny as an American fortress in the Pacific. The conquest of Guam was a decisive triumph of combined arms over a formidable Japanese defensive force which took full advantage of the island’s rugged terrain. The heroic action of the veteran Marines who seized Orote Peninsula and Apra Harbor gave the Navy a much-needed advance base for further operations in the Pacific. Once marine and Army units captured northern Guam, engineers moved in and out from the jungle the airfields from which the Twentieth Air Force launched B-29 raids, bringing the full realization of war to the Japanese homeland.”-LEMUEL C. SHEPHERD, JR., GENERAL, U. S. MARINE CORPS, COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846036615
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guam 1941 & 1944 written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Rottman details the bitter 26-day struggle for this key Pacific island during World War II. The island of Guam was the first Allied territory lost to the Japanese onslaught in 1941. On 10 December 5,000 Japanese troops landed on Guam, defended by less than 500 US and Guamanian troops, the outcome was beyond doubt. On 21 July 1944 America returned. In a risky operation, the two US landing forces came ashore seven miles apart and it was a week before the beachheads linked up. Only the battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa would cost the Americans more men than the landings on Guam and Saipan, which immediately preceded the Guam operation.

Author : Roger Mansell
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511236
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captured written by Roger Mansell and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years before the outbreak of the war in the Pacific, Guam was a paradise for the Navy, Marine and civilian employees of Pan American Airways, who found themselves stationed on the island. However their apprehension about the fate of the island increased as they anticipated a Japanese attack in the fall of 1941. Shortly after attack on Pearl Harbor, Guam was bombed and the Japanese invasion soon followed. Since Guam was not heavily fortified it soon fell to the invading Japanese. In the takeover of the island, the Japanese practiced a swift brutality against the captive Americans as well as native population, and then immediately removed the American military and civilian personnel to Japan. Only a lucky few escaped, including five Navy nurses and dependent Ruby Hellmers and her baby Charlene, who were transported back to America aboard the Swedish ship Gripsholm in mid-1942. In Captured, Mansell tells the story of the captives from Guam, whose story until now has largely been forgotten. Drawing upon interviews with survivors, diaries and archival records, Mansell documents the movements of American military and civilian men as they went from one Japanese POW camp to another, slowly starving as they performed slave labor for Japanese companies. Meanwhile, he describes the brutal horrors suffered by Guamian natives during Japan’s occupation of the island, especially as the Japanese prepared for American forces to re-take this U.S. possession in 1945. Moving stories of liberation, transportation home, and the aftermath of these horrific experiences are narrated as the book draws to a close. Mansell concludes that America’s lack of military preparation, disbelief in Japan’s ambitions in the Pacific, and focus on Europe all contributed to the captivity of more than three years of suffering for the forgotten Americans from Guam as the Pacific War raged around them. Captured was completed by historian Linda Goetz Holmes after the death of Roger Mansell.