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Author : Gordon D. Gayle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015040995949
Author : Martin Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781591789
This fourth volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day covers every aspect of aerial operations on and behind the beaches at 'Omaha' and 'Utah' beaches on 6 June 1944. It might be imagined that the passing years would blunt the outlines of the experience but the D-Day veterans do not forget. Their accounts convey the chaos, terror and hysteria as the first salvos of German fire clanged off the landing craft, in language that is all the more powerful for its terseness and simplicity.??The landings at 'Omaha' which were vital to connect the US troops at 'Utah' Beach with the British and Canadian beaches to the east were an unmitigated disaster with an estimated 3,000 killed, wounded and missing. The highest number of casualties of all the beaches, they were the greatest American losses in one battle since the Battle of Antietam Creek in the American Civil War in September 1862. ??The situation on the beach was chaotic as troops were pinned down by enemy fire and had to take cover behind mined beach defenses. As things progressed, it was an accumulation of individual acts of self-sacrifice and gallantry which opened up an exit and a seaborne bombardment by the task force saw tenuous footholds finally gained by early afternoon. In stark contrast to Omaha, an almost textbook landing was made at Utah; the air bombardment was effective and a strong current actually landed the 4th Infantry Division 2,000 yards south of their intended target where the beach was less heavily defended. ??This account analyses each aspect of the aerial operation, noting how events on the ground and in the sea impacted upon pilots endeavors in the skies. Evocative images supplement the text effectively to create a real sense of what it was like for the pilots of D-Day, the individuals who made such a contribution to the Allied war effort in the Second World War.
Author : Gordon D. Gayle
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547254775
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu" by Gordon D. Gayle. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Gordon D. Gayle
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Peleliu, Battle of, Palau, 1944
ISBN : 9780788137815
Author : Elizabeth Denver Gutchess
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781663203762
Dryden’s Second Hundred Years (Part II) does two exceptional things. First, its tight focus on local participation in World War II paradoxically chronicles the entire war, a conflict which drew its combatants from small rural townships like Dryden NY, assigned and scattered them throughout the world, and then delivered the survivors back home again, creating in every small American community a microcosm of the entire conflict, an eye-witnessing of the whole story. Second, that story is told here largely in local participants’ own words, in letters from camps, troopships, carriers, cruisers, foxholes, and hospitals, their voices a quiet backdrop to the horrific war they had been asked to fight. The resulting narrative suggests that those who don’t know history – while not always doomed to repeat it – are very likely doomed to live their lives without perspective, to mistake inconvenience for hardship, and hardship for catastrophe, and to be blind to the miracle of everyday normal life.
Author : Gordon D. Gayle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1300956398
Author : Usmc (Ret. ) Gayle,Gordon D. Gayle
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1494462222
On D-Day 15 September 1944, five infantry battalions of the 1st Marine Division's 1st, 5th, and 7th Marines, in amphibian tractors (LVTs) lumbered across 600-800 yards of coral reef fringing smoking, reportedly smashed Peleliu in the Palau Island group and toward five selected landing beaches. That westward anchor of the 1,000-mile-long Caroline archipelago was viewed by some U.S. planners as obstacles, or threats, to continued advances against Japan's Pacific empire. The historic battles of the Marines at Peleliu are recounted in this U.S. Marines history book.
Author : Gordon D. Gayle
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 935534371X
Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu, is many of the old classic books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in high quality, using the original text and artwork so that they can be preserved for the present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473826793
This fourth volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day covers every aspect of aerial operations on and behind the beaches at 'Omaha' and 'Utah' beaches on 6 June 1944. It might be imagined that the passing years would blunt the outlines of the experience but the D-Day veterans do not forget. Their accounts convey the chaos, terror and hysteria as the first salvos of German fire clanged off the landing craft, in language that is all the more powerful for its terseness and simplicity.The landings at 'Omaha' which were vital to connect the US troops at 'Utah' Beach with the British and Canadian beaches to the east were an unmitigated disaster with an estimated 3,000 killed, wounded and missing. The highest number of casualties of all the beaches, they were the greatest American losses in one battle since the Battle of Antietam Creek in the American Civil War in September 1862. The situation on the beach was chaotic as troops were pinned down by enemy fire and had to take cover behind mined beach defenses. As things progressed, it was an accumulation of individual acts of self-sacrifice and gallantry which opened up an exit and a seaborne bombardment by the task force saw tenuous footholds finally gained by early afternoon. In stark contrast to Omaha, an almost textbook landing was made at Utah; the air bombardment was effective and a strong current actually landed the 4th Infantry Division 2,000 yards south of their intended target where the beach was less heavily defended. This account analyses each aspect of the aerial operation, noting how events on the ground and in the sea impacted upon pilots endeavors in the skies. Evocative images supplement the text effectively to create a real sense of what it was like for the pilots of D-Day, the individuals who made such a contribution to the Allied war effort in the Second World War.
Author : Daniel Wrinn
Publisher : Storyteller Books, LLC
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798201290719
"Great book for Marines, former Marines and history buffs!" - Reviewer A powerful account of the Marine Raiders during World War II Marine Raiders were special operations forces established during the Pacific campaign to conduct amphibious light infantry warfare. "Edson's" Raiders of 1st Marine Raider Battalion and "Carlson's" Raiders of 2nd Marine Raider Battalion were the first US special operations forces to form and see combat during World War II. Despite the original intent for Raiders to serve in a special operations capacity, most combat operations saw the Raiders employed as conventional infantry. This, combined with the resentment within the rest of the Marine Corps that the Raiders were an "elite force within an elite force," led to the original Raider units being disbanded. This narrative recounts the story of the Marine Raiders in vivid, gritty detail. Explore the fascinating feats of strategy, planning, and bravery, handing the Allies what would eventually become a victory over the Pacific Theater and an end to Imperialist Japanese expansion.
Author : Bill Sloan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743284608
This Band of Brothers for the Pacific is the gut-wrenching and ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious—yet largely forgotten—battle of World War II. Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than 6,500 casualties fighting on a hellish little coral island in the Pacific. Peleliu was the setting for one of the most savage struggles of modern times, a true killing ground that has been all but forgotten—until now. Drawing on interviews with Peleliu veterans, Bill Sloan's gripping narrative seamlessly weaves together the experiences of the men who were there, producing a vivid and unflinching tableau of the twenty-four-hour-a-day nightmare of Peleliu. Emotionally moving and gripping in its depictions of combat, Brotherhood of Heroes rescues the Corps's bloodiest battle from obscurity and does honor to the Marines who fought it.
Author : Bgen Gordon D Gayle Usmcr,Gordon Gayle
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1482030993
The historic battles of the Marines at Peleliu are recounted in this U.S. Marines history book. This book is one in a series devoted to U.S. Marines in the World War II era.
Author : Sarah N. Harvey,Robin Stevenson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459812956
Eight teens are dropped off on a remote west-coast island for a week-long treatment program called INTRO (Into Nature to Renew Ourselves). The story is told by two of them: Alice, whose police-officer mother believes Alice might have a substance-abuse problem, and Caleb, who assaulted his abusive stepfather. They are joined by six other miscreants and three staff: a psychologist, a social worker and an ex-cop. On the first night, one of the girls disappears from her cabin. There is a panicked search of the island, but she is nowhere to be found. The adults seem oddly ineffectual in dealing with the crisis—and then the ex-cop gets sick and dies. The radio has been sabotaged, and there is no way to call for help. When the social worker also becomes ill, the kids decide to take matters into their own hands and track down the killer.
Author : Delano Stagg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0452000637
Author : Warlord Games
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472838988
The Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, also known as Operation Forager, was intended to facilitate the recapture of the Philippines and to provide bases for the bombing of the Japanese mainland. This new Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to recreate the fierce battles of Saipan, Peleliu, Guam, and many others. With new, linked scenarios, rules, troop types, and Theatre Selectors, this book provides plenty of options for both novice and veteran players alike.