With The 41st Division In The Southwest Pacific

Author : Francis B. Catanzaro
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253109477
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific written by Francis B. Catanzaro and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[W]e began our advance toward the Mokmer Airstrip.... The road climbed a ridge 15 or 20 feet high and we found ourselves on a flat coral plateau sparsely covered by small trees and scrub growth.... As we moved westward along the road, two of our destroyers were sailing abreast of the lead elements of the advancing column. The first indication of trouble was the roar of heavy artillery shells sailing over our heads... aimed at our destroyers.... Shortly after that our forward movement stopped, and we heard heavy firing from the head of the column.... As we waited, we began to hear heavy fire from the rear.... We were cut off and surrounded!" In the enormous literature of the Second World War, there are surprisingly few accounts of fighting in the southwest Pacific, fewer still by common infantrymen. This memoir, written with a simple and direct honesty that is rare indeed, follows a foot soldier's career from basic training to mustering out. It takes the reader into the jungles and caves of New Guinea and the Philippines during the long campaign to win the war against Japan. From basic training at Camp Roberts through combat, occupation, and the long journey home, Francis Catanzaro's account tells of the excitement, misery, cruelty, and terror of combat, and of the uneasy boredom of jungle camp life. A member of the famed 41st Infantry Brigade, the "Jungleers," Catanzaro saw combat at Hollandia, Biak, Zamboanga, and Mindanao. He was a part of the Japanese occupation force and writes with feeling about living among his former enemies and of the decision to drop the atom bomb. With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific is a powerful, gritty, and moving narrative of the life of a soldier during some of the most difficult fighting of World War II.

Author : Frank J. Konrath
Publisher : Trafford
ISBN 13 : 9781412012911
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War II Memoirs written by Frank J. Konrath and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2003 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of a GI's overseas experiences of 38 months in WWII in the southwest Pacific islands with the 41st Division Infantry.

Author : William F. McCartney
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789121159
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jungleers written by William F. McCartney and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book gives the history of your unprecedented accomplishments over a period of four years of combat in World War II. They were, for many of you, painful years through which you fought your way valiantly, step by step, from Australia to the distant final objective, Japan. The magnificent manner in which our Division relentlessly met, defeated, and pursued the enemy shall forever be an inspiration to all military men who believe in Democracy and Freedom. “Herein are transcribed names and events which will help those who were not there to understand; and will be for those of us who stood together a permanent record of some of the experiences we shared. It is not possible to set down the full story in writing. Only a hint of the real hardships, sufferings and anxieties which we experienced; of the courage, determination, and heroism demonstrated in alt units, can be given. The full story can only be known by those who participated.”

Author : United States. Army. Forces, Pacific
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1945 written by United States. Army. Forces, Pacific and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul C. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781403362414
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sunset War written by Paul C. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wicked Heart, Wicked Mind is the story of a woman who struggles, over a span of more than forty years, with a personality disorder that has a devastating impact on her relationships with her family and friends. As a child, she saw what money, or the lack of it, could do to destroy a family; and so, throughout her life, she fantasized about all the things that money could buy, including happiness. Her insatiable desire for wealth and love ultimately turns deadly when she conspires with her long-time friend and lover to gain control of her wealthy stepfather's estate.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.8B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Army in World War II. written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James C. McNaughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Army in the Pacific written by James C. McNaughton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offers an overview of the Army's history in this rapidly changing region. It describes how the Army's involvement began with an expedition to seize Manila from Spain in 1898, which led to a protracted campaign against Philippine insurgents. When Japan attacked in 1941, the Army fought back as part of a joint and multinational team in some of the most far-reaching campaigns in history, after which the Army became responsible for post-conflict operations in Japan, Okinawa, South Korea, and the Philippines. During the Cold War, the Army fought hot wars in Korea and Vietnam. After the Vietnam War, the Army provided regional stability, a shield against aggression, and engagement with allies and partners as the region experienced unprecedented growth. This broad historical perspective reveals some enduring lessons: the vast distances and diversity of terrain and weather, the necessity for joint and multinational operations, and the need for a versatile, adaptive, and agile force"--Publisher's website.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Army in World War II. written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Ross Smith
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782894047
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - the Approach to the Philippines written by Robert Ross Smith and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 2 tables, 33 maps and 56 illustrations] Jungle warfare in the Southwest Pacific provided a unique experience for an army only lately thrust into global war; but as The Approach to the Philippines graphically demonstrates, the rules of war, the problems of leadership, and the opportunities for military success pertain in the steaming hills of New Guinea as well as on the broad plains of Normandy. This volume describes the operations of Allied forces in the Pacific theaters during the approach to the Philippines, April through October 1944. While this is essentially the story of U.S. Army ground combat operations during the approach, the activities of all ground, air, and naval forces are covered where necessary for the understanding of the Army ground narrative. Eight major and separate operations, all susceptible of subdivision into distinct phases, are described. Seven of these operations took place in the Southwest Pacific Area, while one--the Palau Islands operation--occurred in the Central Pacific Area. This series of actions is exceptional in that the operations were executed in such rapid succession that while one was being planned the height of combat was being reached in another and still others had entered the mopping-up stage. Because of the nature of the combat, the level of treatment in this volume is generally that of the regimental combat team--the infantry regiment with its supporting artillery, engineer, tank, medical, and other units. The majority of the actions described involved a series of separate operations by infantry regiments or regimental combat teams, since divisions seldom fought as integral units during the approach to the Philippines. Division headquarters, often assuming the role of a ground task force headquarters, co-ordinated and administered the oft-times widely separated actions of the division’s component parts.

Author : Charles R. Anderson
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160882661
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Pacific written by Charles R. Anderson and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1994 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: