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Combat WW II Pacific : unforgettable eyewitness accounts of the momentous military struggles of World War II / edited by Don Congdon ; foreword by Herbert Mitgang.
Record details
- ISBN: 0883659441
- ISBN: 9780883659441
- Physical Description: 750 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Galahad Books edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Galahad Books, 1996.
- Copyright: ©1983.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Companion volume to: Combat World War II : Europe"--Jacket. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / by Herbert Mitgang -- "Pearl Harbor" / by Roger Emmons -- "Tragedy in the China Sea" / by Cecil Brown -- "Fall of Singapore" / by Kenneth Attiwill -- "Bamboo doctor" / by Stanley Pavillard -- "Wake Island command" / by W. Scott Cunningham -- "Death march on Bataan" / by William Dyess -- "Action in the Sunda Strait" / by Ronald McKie -- "Battle of Midway" / by J. Bryan III -- "Ferdinand on Hollandia" / by E.A. Feldt -- "Guadalcanal : the turning point" / by Frank Hough -- "Fighting back in New Guinea" / by George H. Johnston -- "Raid on Singapore" / by Brian Connell -- "PT boats in the Slot" / by John Hersey -- "Tarawa : the second day" / by Robert Sherrod -- "Suicide Creek at New Britain" / by Asa Bordages -- "Action at the Pigpen" / by S.L.A. Marshall -- "End on Saipan" / by Frank Hough -- "Banzai on Guam" / by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- "Caves of Biak" / by Harold Riegelman -- "Raid of Balikpapan" / by Elliot Arnold and Donald Hough -- "Coral comes high" / by George P. Hunt -- "Submarine vs. destroyer" / by Harley Cope and Walter Karig -- "Northern front in Burma" / by Viscount Slim -- "Blackpool block" / John Masters -- "Battle for Leyte Gulf" / by Hanson Baldwin -- "Iwo : the jungle of stone" / by Marine Combat Writers -- "Okinawa" / Frank Hough -- "Gallant fight of the radar pickets" / S.E. Morison -- "Abandon ship" / Richard F. Newcomb -- "Great white light" / Gene Gurney. "Blackpool block" / John Masters -- "Battle for Leyte Gulf" / by Hanson Baldwin -- "Iwo : the jungle of stone" / by Marine Combat Writers -- "Okinawa" / Frank Hough -- "Gallant fight of the radar pickets" / S.E. Morison -- "Abandon ship" / Richard F. Newcomb -- "Great white light" / Gene Gurney. "Abandon ship" / Richard F. Newcomb -- "Great white light" / Gene Gurney. |
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| Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Ocean. World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives. |
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