Pacifica Military History: 15 books
Marines in the Marianas, Volume 1
Saipan. A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The American mid-1944 campaign in the Mariana Islands was an important strategic step that placed Tokyo and the rest of Japan’s industrial heartland within range of the new U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 very-long-range bombers. Once the islands were secured and the airfields were built, the army air...
Marines in the Marianas, Volume 2
Tinian and Guam. A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The American mid-1944 campaign in the Mariana Islands was an important strategic step that placed Tokyo and the rest of Japan’s industrial heartland within range of the new U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 very-long-range bombers. Once the islands were secured and the airfields were built, the army air...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Although U.S. Marines had broken the back of the Japanese on Guadalcanal in furious combat between August 1942 and February 1943, much hard fighting remained to be endured on jungle-choked islands to the north. Between late 1942 and the end of 1943, the Marines on the ground and in the air took part...
Marines on New Britain
Cape Gloucester and Rabaul. A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The Guadalcanal-blooded 1st Marine Division’s assault on Cape Gloucester in western New Britain on December 26, 1943, was unconnected to the preceding seventeen-month slog along the nearby Solomon Islands chain. Nor did it have anything to do with the neutralization of the Japanese naval and air...
Marines on Okinawa
A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
y late March 1945, the pathway to invasion of the southernmost major island of the Japanese archipelago, Kyushu, had been secured but for one necessary stepping stone American forces required to support their tactical air effort leading up to and overhead the projected invasion of Japan, set to begin...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The six-month Guadalcanal campaign was the longest and most complicated operation U.S. Marines faced in the Pacific War. In July 1942, when it was discovered that the Japanese were building a bomber base on the island, the 1st Marine Division was the only Allied force available to respond to the threat....
Always Faithful
The 100 Best Photos of U.S. Marines in World War II Combat
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A Picture is worth a thousand words
In his *Always Faithful, noted military historian Eric Hammel has assembled one hundred Marine Corpsa combat photos from the Pacific Theater of operations during World War II. Together these tell the story of the Marines’ costly victory over the Japanese.
Over...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
By early 1944 the Americans’ westward drive across the Pacific required airfields in the Marshall Islands, at Kwajalein and Eniwetok atolls. In late January, the 4th Marine Division and U.S. Army troops wrenched control of Kwajalein Atoll in three days of heavy fighting. Then, beginning February...
The Steel Wedge
U.S. Marine Corps Armor in Pacific Island Combat
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Conceived as a visual record rather than a definitive history, The Steel Wedge is a substantial photographic archive—246 photos, many never before published—focused on the coming of age of U.S. Marine Corps tanks, tank destroyers, and armored amphibian tractors through the Pacific island-hopping...
Marines on Iwo Jima, Volume 1
A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Even in as bloody and bluntly violent a war as Americans encountered in the Pacific, Iwo Jima, the ultimate expression of death and mayhem, stands out. It was in a class by itself, a meatgrinder smashed by a blunt instrument at exceedingly high cost. Relying upon a purely attritional strategy of “defend...
Marines on Iwo Jima, Volume 2
A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Even in as bloody and bluntly violent a war as Americans encountered in the Pacific, Iwo Jima, the ultimate expression of death and mayhem, stands out. It was in a class by itself, a meatgrinder smashed by a blunt instrument at exceedingly high cost. Relying upon a purely attritional strategy of “defend...
Bloody Tarawa
A Pictorial Record, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
On the morning of Saturday, November 20, 1943, the U.S. 2d Marine Division undertook the first modern amphibious assault against a well-defended beachhead. The objective was tiny Betio Island in Tarawa Atoll. The result was an classic story of tragedy and near defeat turned around into an epic of...
Marines on Peleliu
A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The American campaign in the western Pacific from the late summer 1944 to mid-1945 was a violent undertaking at every turn. The Japanese had been relentlessly pushed back throughout 1943 and 1944. Except for the western Caroline Islands, the Philippines, Formosa, a few islands near Japan, and Japan...
Going Downtown
The War Against Hanoi and Washington
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
GOING DOWNTOWN: The War Against Hanoi and Washington by Jack Broughton. A combat aviation classic. “Going Downtown” was the term American combat pilots used to denote the almost daily and invariably dangerous combat missions against the North Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, and its environs. To Colonel...
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