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In Guadalcanal Marine, Kerry L. Lane recounts the dark reality of combat experienced by the men of the 1st Marine Division fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester. With eighty gripping photographs and his text, he brings to life the struggles of his companions as they achieve these two astonishi...

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Autor principal: Lane, Kerry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lane, Kerry.
United States. > Marine Corps. > Marine Regiment, 1st.
United States. > Marine Corps.
États-Unis. > Marine Corps > Sous-officiers > Biographies.
United States. > Marine Corps > Non-commissioned officers > Biography.
Regimental histories.
Military campaigns.
Armed Forces > Non-commissioned officers.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Pacifique, Ocean.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Histoire des unites > États-Unis.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
United States.
Pacific Area.
Recits personnels.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Personal narratives > American.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; X; Introduction; Abbreviations and Terms; Key to Military Map Symbols; Part I. Guadalcanal; 1. Making of a Marine; 2. Preparing for Combat; 3. Wartime Expansion; 4. Shoving off to Make History; 5. Guadalcanal, Their Finest Hour; 6. Stranded; 7. The Battle of the Tenaru; 8. The Battle of Bloody Ridge; 9. After the Ridge; 10. September Matanikau Action; 11. October Matanikau Battle; 12. Second Assault on Bloody Ridge; 13. The Final Phase of the Campaign; 14. Guadalcanal in Perspective; 15. Departing for the Land Down Under; 16. Australia Remembered; 17. Going Back to War
  • Part II. Cape Gloucester18. Cape Gloucester, the Green Inferno; 19. The Battle of Suicide Creek; 20. Cape Gloucester in Perspective; 21. Pavuvu; 22. Homeward Bound; 23. The Last Post; Glossary; America terms; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; K; M; P; S; T; U; Australian terms; A; B; C; D; F; G; S; Japanese terms; B; H; R; S; T; Z; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; Z

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