Battleground Pacific

Battleground Pacific
Title Battleground Pacific PDF eBook
Author Sterling Mace
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 352
Release 2012-05-08
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1250005051

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A powerfully wrought WWII memoir by a member of the fabled 1st Marine Division depicted in HBO's "The Pacific" that profiles a dramatic, "under the helmet" view of some of the worst action of the Pacific War.

Battleground Pacific

Battleground Pacific
Title Battleground Pacific PDF eBook
Author Sterling Mace
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 349
Release 2012-05-08
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1250009774

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Battleground Pacific is a powerfully wrought military memoir by a member of World War II's fabled 1st Marine division. Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary "K-3-5" (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and his story takes readers through some of the most intense action of the Pacific War, from the seldom-seen perspective of a rifleman at the point of attack. Battleground Pacific is filled with indelible moments that begin with his childhood growing up in Queens, New York, and his run-in with the law that eventually led to his enlistment. But this is ultimately a combat tale—as violent and harrowing as any that has come before. From fighting through the fiery hell that was Peleliu to the deadly battleground of Okinawa, Mace traces his path from the fear of combat to understanding that killing another human comes just as easily as staying alive. He learns that bravery often equates to stupidity, leading to the death of close friends, but also that life goes on, with death on its heels. Battleground Pacific is one of the most important and entertaining memoirs about the Pacific theater in WWII.

Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II

Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II
Title Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II PDF eBook
Author Earl R. Hinz
Publisher Bess Press
Pages 120
Release 1995
Genre History
ISBN 9781573060080

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Highlights decisive WWII military operations in Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, and their effects on the islands. Illustrations, maps, and index.

Battleground

Battleground
Title Battleground PDF eBook
Author W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher Penguin
Pages 496
Release 1991-09-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1440635854

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W.E.B. Griffin is a bestselling phenomenom, an American master of authentic military action and drama! Now, in this electrifying new novel, he reveals the story of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Pacific, the epic struggle for Guadalcanal...Daredevil pilot Charles Galloway learns the hard way how to command a fighter squadron. Lt. Joe Howard teams up with the Coastwatchers. Jack "No Middle Initial" Stecker leads his infantry battalion into the thickest of fighting, at a terrible price. And Navy Captain Pickering grabs a helmet and rifle to join the ranks at Guadalcanal...

Islands of the Damned

Islands of the Damned
Title Islands of the Damned PDF eBook
Author R.V. Burgin
Publisher Penguin
Pages 321
Release 2011-03-01
Genre History
ISBN 0451232267

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A remarkable eyewitness account of the most brutal combat of the Pacific War, from Peleliu to Okinawa, this is the true story of R.V. Burgin, the real-life World War II Marine Corps hero featured in HBO®'s The Pacific. “Read his story and marvel at the man...and those like him.”—Tom Hanks When a young Texan named R.V. Burgin joined the Marines 1942, he never imagined what was waiting for him a world away in the Pacific. There, amid steamy jungles, he encountered a ferocious and desperate enemy in the Japanese, engaging them in some of the most grueling and deadly fights of the war. In this remarkable memoir, Burgin reveals his life as a special breed of Marine. Schooled by veterans who had endured the cauldron of Guadalcanal, Burgin’s company soon confronted snipers, repulsed jungle ambushes, encountered abandoned corpses of hara-kiri victims, and warded off howling banzai attacks as they island-hopped from one bloody battle to the next. In his two years at war, Burgin rose from a green private to a seasoned sergeant, fighting from New Britain through Peleliu and on to Okinawa, where he earned a Bronze Star for valor. With unforgettable drama and an understated elegance, Burgin’s gripping narrative stands alongside those of classic Pacific chroniclers like Robert Leckie and Eugene Sledge—indeed, Burgin was even Sledge’s platoon sergeant. Here is a deeply moving account of World War II, bringing to life the hell that was the Pacific War.

Hell in the Pacific

Hell in the Pacific
Title Hell in the Pacific PDF eBook
Author Jim McEnery
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 308
Release 2013-06-11
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1451659148

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In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettable chronicle of heroism and horror McErery’s Rifle Company—the legendary K/3/5 of the First Marine Division, made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific—fought in some of the most ferocious battles of the war. In searing detail, the author takes us back to Guadalcanal, where American forces first turned the tide against the Japanese; Cape Gloucester, where 1,300 Marines were killed or wounded; and bloody Peleliu, where McEnery assumed command of the company and helped hasten the final defeat of the Japanese garrison after weeks of torturous cave-to-cave fighting. McEnery’s story is a no-holds-barred, grunt’s-eye view of the sacrifices, suffering, and raw courage of the men in the foxholes, locked in mortal combat with an implacable enemy sworn to fight to the death. From bayonet charges and hand-to-hand combat to midnight banzai attacks and the loss of close buddies, the rifle squad leader spares no details, chronicling his odyssey from boot camp through twenty-eight months of hellish combat until his eventual return home. He has given us an unforgettable portrait of men at war.

U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle

U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle
Title U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle PDF eBook
Author Gordon Rottman
Publisher Greenwood
Pages 620
Release 2002
Genre History
ISBN

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