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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UIUC:30112052642227
Author : Wesley Frank Craven,James Lea Cate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 877 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 091279903X
Omfattende beskrivelse af US Army Air Force under 2. verdenskrig
Author : United States. USAF Historical Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:5732311
Author : United States. USAF Historical Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : WISC:89005962253
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602305945
Author : Milan Vego
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612511719
One of the largest and most complex military efforts ever undertaken, the Leyte Operation was the Allies’ first and most important major combined operation to liberate the Philippine archipelago. The stakes were high: a successful landing at Leyte was critical to a subsequent assault on Luzon and total control of the Philippines. If Japan lost the Philippines, its supply of oil and other strategic raw materials would be cut off and its navy doomed to an inglorious end. In this comprehensive study, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject addresses all aspects of the two-month-long ground, sea, and air invasion, and presents a complete evaluation of theater-wide command, organization, intelligence, and logistics. Drawing on a wealth of Allied and Japanese primary documents and countless secondary sources, Milan Vego describes and analyzes the operational planning and preparation as well as the execution of actions on both sides. Focusing on the operational versus tactical aspects of the struggle, he critically assesses the major decisions made by the senior commanders. His access to the Allied Magic radio intercepts allows him to shed light on what Allied and Japanese commanders knew and did not know about each other. Unlike other books on the subject, Vego provides the reader with detailed analysis of the operational lessons learned that can be taken away from the engagement. A large number of maps, figures, and tables enhance the text.
Author : Peter Harmsen
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612006284
A gripping account of the final period of the war in the Asia Pacific during WWII. The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944-1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters. Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle ever, was testimony to the paramount importance of controlling the ocean, as was the fact that the US Navy carried out the only successful submarine campaign in history, reducing Japan’s military and merchant navies to shadows of the former selves. Meanwhile, fighting continued in disparate geographic conditions on land, with the chaos of Imphal, the inferno of Manila, and the carnage of Iwo Jima forming some of the milestones on the bloody road to peace, sealed in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. The nuclear blasts at the end of the war made one observer feel as if he was ‘present at the creation.' Indeed, the participants in the events in the Asia Pacific in the mid-1940s were present at the creation of a new and dangerous world. It was a world where the stage was set for the Cold War and for international rivalries that last to this day, and a new constellation of powers emerged, with the outlines, just over the horizon, of a rising China. War in the Far East is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of World War II in the Asia Pacific. Unlike other histories on the conflict it goes into its deep origins, beginning long before Pearl Harbor, and encompasses a far wider group of actors to produce the most complete account yet written on the subject and the first truly international treatment of this epic conflict. Author Peter Harmsen weaves together complex events into a revealing and entertaining narrative, including facets of the war that may be unknown even to avid readers of World War II history, from the mass starvation that cost the lives of millions across China, Indochina, and India to the war in sub-arctic conditions in the Aleutians. Harmsen pieces together the full range of perspectives, reflecting what war was like both at the top and on the ground.
Author : Jeffrey G. Barlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022380724
Chronicles in compelling detail the historic showdown between the U.S. Air Force and the Navy over the role of carrier aviation in the national security framework of the United States.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCSD:31822030252043
Author : William B. Hopkins
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616732400
This “important comprehensive study” of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory (Roanoke Times). Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological narratives. In The Pacific War, William B. Hopkins, a Marine Corps veteran of the Pacific war and respected military history author, opens the story of the Pacific campaign to a broader and deeper view. Hopkins investigates the strategies, politics, and personalities that shaped the fighting. His regional approach to this complex war conducted on land, sea, and air offers an insightful perspective on how this multifaceted conflict unfolded. As expansive as the immense reaches of the Pacific, and as focused as the most intensive pinpoint attack on a strategic island, Hopkins’ account offers a fresh way of understanding the hows—and more significantly, the whys—of the Pacific War.
Author : Stanley Woodburn Kirby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015002648940
Author : Anne Sharp Wells
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538102565
Historical Dictionary of World War II: The War Against Japan, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and more than 500 cross-referenced entries on the military, diplomatic, political, social, economic, and scientific aspects of the war, in addition to the lives of the people who participated in and directed the war.
Author : Robin L. Rielly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786474226
As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies. One of the most crucial to the island assaults was a new group of amphibious gunboats that could deliver heavy fire close in to shore as American forces landed. These gunboats were also to prove important in the interdiction of inter-island barge traffic and, late in the war, the kamikaze threat. Several variations of these gunboats were developed, based on the troop carrying LCI(L). They included three conversions of the LCI(L), with various combinations of guns, rockets and mortars, and a fourth gunboat, the LCS(L), based on the same hull but designed as a weapons platform from the beginning. By the end of the war the amphibious gunboats had proven their worth.
Author : Gordon Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313075582
Covering all Pacific islands involved in World War II military operations, this book is a detailed, single source of information on virtually every geo-military aspect of the Pacific Theater. Arranged regionally and, to the extent possible, chronologically according to when islands entered the war, entries provide complete background information. Along with island names, nicknames, Allied code names, location, and wartime time zones, the entries include such topics as the island's physical characteristics, weather, health hazards, historical background, native population, natural resources, and military value. Japanese and Allied strategies and operations, military problems caused by terrain, military installations, Japanese units and key commanders, Allied units and key commanders, and brief battle descriptions are also covered along with the island's postwar status. A valuable resource for researchers, historians, military history enthusiasts, and war gamers, the book provides complete background information on the geo-military aspects of the Pacific Ocean region, its islands, and the roles they played in the war. 108 maps provide specific information. Until now, geo-military information could only be found by searching four to ten publications on each island.
Author : Douglas Ford
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847252371
A rich and broadranging account of the Asia-Pacific campaigns of WWII.