Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific,9781580970501

Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific

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ISBN13: 9781580970501
ISBN10: 1580970508
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-01-22
Publisher(s): Grand Central Publishing
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Summary

No previous book has been devoted to Marine Corps armor in World War II. Gilbert's gripping narrative combines exhaustive detail on Marine armor and combat with moving eyewitness accounts, never before published, of what it was actually like to be a Marine tanker in action in the Pacific.

Author Biography

Oscar E. Gilbert, Ph. D., is a former Marine artilleryman and currently a geoscientist living in Texas. He is the National Information Coordinator for the Armor Modeling and Preservation Society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 6(8)
Preface 8(3)
Prologue 11(3)
Novices at War: Birth of the Tank Corps and the Coming of War
14(19)
Blood on the Tracks: Guadalcanal and the Southern Solomons
33(19)
A Job for the Army: The New Georgia Campaign
52(18)
The defensive Offensive: Bougainville
70(6)
Drowning on the Reef: Tarawa
76(29)
Swamp Tanks: Cape Gloucester
105(17)
The Last Charge: Roi-Namur and the Marshall Islands
122(17)
The Bloodiest Battle You Never Heard Of: Saipan
139(29)
``The Most Perfect Amphibious Operation'': Tinian
168(13)
A Point of Honor: Guam
181(24)
In the Gory Oven: Peleliu
205(24)
Hell Boils Over: Iwo Jima
229(47)
Processing the Enemy: Okinawa
276(44)
Anticlimax: The Collapse of Japan and Occupation
320(4)
Epilogue 324(2)
Interview Sources 326(4)
Notes and Sources 330(13)
Selected References 343(6)
Index 349

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