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Shooting the Pacific War : Marine Corps Combat Photography in WWII /

"Shooting the Pacific War is based on Soule's detailed wartime journals. Soule was in the unique position to interact with men at all levels of the military, and he provides intriguing closeups of generals, admirals, sergeants, and privates - everyone he met and worked with along the way....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soule, Thayer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. I Become a Marine
  • 2. Quantico, New River, and the First Division
  • 3. Overseas to New Zealand and North to Combat
  • 4. The Early Days on Guadalcanal
  • 5. Tenaru, the Tokyo Express, and Bloody Ridge
  • 6. Lunga Life, the Air Raids, and Naval Bombardment
  • 7. The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
  • 8. Australia
  • 9. Home Leave
  • 10. The Golden Days at Quantico
  • 11. Guam and the Third Division
  • 12. Iwo Jima
  • 13. Great Orders
  • 14. War's End at Pearl Harbor.