War in the Pacific: Volume 2 - Softcover

Merriam, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468125737 ISBN 13: 9781468125733

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

Merriam Press Military Monograph 149. Fourth Edition (December 2011). Collection of 20 articles on various aspects of World War II in the Pacific Theater. Contents: (1) The War in the Solomons: A Report; (2) Interrogation of Capt. Mitsuo Fuchida, IJN: The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Kamikaze Corps in the Philippines and at Okinawa; (3) Never a Battle Like Midway; (4) Cold Steel at Hot Rocks: The Battle for Iwo Jima; (5) The Battle of Cibik’s Ridge: Bougainville, November 1943; (6) The 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal; (7) The Battle of Butterfly Ridge: Two Medals of Honor Awarded in Single Saipan Battle; (8) The Doolittle Raid: World War II’s Greatest Gamble; (9) Soviet-Japanese Confrontation in Outer Mongolia: The Battle of Nomonhan – Khalkin Gol; (10) The Soviet-Japanese War of 1945; (11) The Frogmen of Eniwetok; (12) “There Are Only Dead Men on the Bridge...”: Medal of Honor Recipient Lt. Comdr. Bruce McCandless; (13) O’Callahan of the Franklin; (14) The Aleuts: Flying PBYs with VP-61 in the Aleutians; (15) Interrogation of Capt. Kyuzo Tamura, IJN, and Comdr. Binzo Sugita, IJN: Allied Offensive Mining Campaign; (16) Fighter Combat Tactics in the Southwest Pacific Area; (17) The Jungle Slaughterhouse of Guadalcanal; (18) Okinawa: The Last Battleground; (19) Mask Lifted on Japan’s Wartime Experiments; (20) U.S. ‘Knew’ Japan Used Yanks for Germ Warfare ‘Experiments.' 26 photos; 4 illustrations.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1468125737
• ISBN 13: 9781468125733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224