Battle Story Iwo Jima 1945
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Author |
: Andrew Rawson |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 163 |
Release |
: 2011-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780752477992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0752477994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Battle Story: Iwo Jima 1945 by : Andrew Rawson
Operation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific. If you truly want to understand what happened and why – read this battle story. Detailed profiles explore the leaders, tactics and equipment of the US and Japanese armies. Nine specially commissioned maps track the progress of the battle and the shifting frontlines. Rare photographs place you in the centre of the unfolding action. Diary extracts and quotes give you a soldier’s eye-view of the battle. Orders of Battle reveal the composition of the opposing forces’ armies. Packed with fact boxes, this short introduction is the perfect way to explore this important battle.
Author |
: Richard D. Camp, Dick Camp |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 161673261X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781616732615 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Iwo Jima Recon by : Richard D. Camp, Dick Camp
Iwo Jima, February 17, 1945: The mission: to scout the beaches for underwater obstacles and mines and determine whether the soil would support vehicles. Four Navy Underwater Demolition Teams (predecessor to the SEALS) and twenty-two Marine observers-backed by battleships Tennessee and Nevada, a cruiser, several destroyers, and twelve Landing Craft Infantry ships configured as gunboats proceeded with the operation. The story of what followed - the battle for Iwo Jima that no one knows - is fully told for the first time in this book, a heart-stopping account of ill-equipped but heroic forces under fire from an unexpected, overwhelming enemy. Drawing on first-person accounts, deck logs, and after-action reports, Dick Camp brings the action to harrowing life: the thin-skinned reconfigured LCIs fighting it out with the Japanese in a valiant effort to protect the swimmers caught five hundred yards off the beach; the battleship Nevada ignoring orders to withdraw and moving in to knock out the enemys heavy caliber guns; the devastating action - casualities of 40 percent - that very likely saved the actual landing on the 19th.
Author |
: Derrick Wright |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2020-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780750994071 |
ISBN-13 |
: 075099407X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Battle for Iwo Jima 1945 by : Derrick Wright
Iwo Jima was the United States Marine Corps' toughest ever battle and a turning point in the Pacific War. In February 1945, three Marine Divisions stormed the island's shores in what was supposed to be a ten-day battle, but they had reckoned without General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the enemy commander.
Author |
: Fred Haynes |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2008-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429937924 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429937920 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lions of Iwo Jima by : Fred Haynes
"In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America understand how it was done."—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. The unit, 4,500 men strong, plunged immediately into ferocious combat, and by the time the battled ended, 70 percent of the men in the team's three assault battalions were killed or seriously wounded. The stories told here, many for the first time, will seem too cruel, too heartbreaking to be believed. As one veteran remarked, "Each day we learned a new way to die." Major General Fred Haynes, then a young captain, is the last surviving office in CT 28 who was intimately involved in planning and coordinating all phases of the team's fight on Iwo Jima. In this astonishing narrative, Haynes and James A. Warren recapture in riveting detail what the Marines experienced, drawing on a wealth of previously untapped documents, personal narratives, letters, and interviews with survivors to offer fresh interpretations of the fight for Suribachi, the iconic flag-raising photograph, and the nature of the campaign as a whole.
Author |
: Eric M. Hammel |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610607254 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610607252 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iwo Jima by : Eric M. Hammel
Author |
: Steven Otfinoski |
Publisher |
: Tangled History |
Total Pages |
: 113 |
Release |
: 2019-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781543575583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1543575587 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Battle of Iwo Jima by : Steven Otfinoski
On February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines landed on a tiny Pacific Island called Iwo Jima. Facing rugged terrain and a deeply entrenched enemy, they embarked on a fierce five-week battld to take the island and its airfields from the Imperial Japanese Army. Through vivid storytelling, experience one of the most important battles of World War II.
Author |
: Robert S. Burrell |
Publisher |
: Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2011-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781603445177 |
ISBN-13 |
: 160344517X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ghosts of Iwo Jima by : Robert S. Burrell
In February 1945, some 80,000 U.S. Marines attacked the heavily defended fortress that the Japanese had constructed on the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Leaders of the Army Air Forces said they needed the airfields there to provide fighter escort for their B-29 bombers. At the cost of 28,000 American casualties, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions dutifully conquered this desolate piece of hell with a determination and sacrifice that have become legendary in the annals of war, immortalized in the photograph of six Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. But the Army Air Forces’ fighter operations on Iwo Jima subsequently proved both unproductive and unnecessary. After the fact, a number of other justifications were generated to rationalize this tragically expensive battle. Ultimately, misleading statistics were presented to contend that the number of lives saved by B-29 emergency landings on Iwo Jima outweighed the cost of its capture. In The Ghosts of Iwo Jima, Captain Robert S. Burrell masterfully reconsiders the costs of taking Iwo Jima and its role in the war effort. His thought-provoking analysis also highlights the greater contribution of Iwo Jima’s valiant dead: They inspired a reverence for the Marine Corps that proved critical to its institutional survival and its embodiment of American national spirit. From the 7th War Loan Campaign of 1945 through the flag-raising at Ground Zero in 2001, the immortal image of Iwo Jima has become a symbol of American patriotism itself. Burrell’s searching account of this fabled island conflict will advance our understanding of World War II and its continuing legacy for the twenty-first century. At last, the battle’s ghosts may unveil its ultimate, and most crucial, lessons.
Author |
: Richard F. Newcomb |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2002-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0805070710 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780805070712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iwo Jima by : Richard F. Newcomb
Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
Author |
: Jack Lucas |
Publisher |
: Da Capo Press |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2009-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786736317 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786736313 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indestructible by : Jack Lucas
During the battle of Iwo Jima, two enemy grenades landed close to Jack Lucas and his buddies. Jack threw himself on one of the grenades, grabbed the second, and pulled it beneath his body. His buddies were saved, but Lucas was badly injured. Miraculously, he survived-but just barely. For this brave action seventeen-year-old Jack Lucas from North Carolina became the youngest Marine in history to receive the Medal of Honor. Indestructible reveals the rocky road that led Jack Lucas to Iwo Jima, his arduous recovery, and the obstacles Jack overcame later in life. Jack's moving and powerful memoir is a testament to America's greatest generation.
Author |
: Samuel Eliot Morison |
Publisher |
: History of United States Naval |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1591145791 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781591145790 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Victory in the Pacific by : Samuel Eliot Morison
In a book that discusses the final months of World War II's Pacific Theater, the author discusses the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis , Japanese kamikaze attacks and the dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese mainland to end the war.