Us Marine Corps 1941 45

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782004554

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US Marine Corps 1941–45 by Gordon L. Rottman Pdf

While the US Marine Corps was one of the smallest of American armed services in World War II, its contribution to the final victory cannot be overstated. The US Marine Corps may have only comprised 5 percent of America's armed forces, but it suffered 10 percent of all World War II combat casualties. Above all, he amphibious nature of the war in the Pacific imposed on the Marine Corps greater tasks than any it had ever before been called upon to perform. This title details the organization, weapons and equipment of the US Marines of World War II.

Author : Gordon Rottman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756790395

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US Marine Corps 1941-45 by Gordon Rottman Pdf

This volume, in the Osprey Military Fighting Elite series, contains detailed information on the uniforms and insignia of one of the world's most famous military forces. While the U.S. Marine Corps was one of the smallest of American armed services in World War II, its contribution to the final victory cannot be overstated, and the Marines suffered 10% of the nation's combat casualties. By the end of the war, 98% of the Marine Corps' officers and 89% of its enlisted men had been deployed abroad. The Marines conducted proportionally more amphibious assaults than the Army; these landings were often followed by some of the most brutal combat experienced by U.S. forces. The book includes over 50 photographs and diagrams, plus 12 full-color plates.

Author : Gordon Rottman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Military forces
ISBN : OCLC:809756399

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U.S. Marine Corps 1941-45 by Gordon Rottman Pdf

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472802200

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US Marine Corps Pacific Theater of Operations 1941–43 by Gordon L. Rottman Pdf

The outbreak of World War II set in motion a massive expansion of the United States Marine Corps, leading to a 24-fold increase in size by August 1945. This book is the first of several volumes to examine the Corps's meteoric wartime expansion and the evolution of its units. It covers the immediate pre-war period, the rush to deploy defense forces in the war's early months, and the Marines' first combat operations on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, and Bougainville. It focuses on the 1st, 2d, and 3d Marine Divisions (MarDivs) and the provisional 1st, 2d, and 3d Marine Brigades (MarBdes).

Author : George Forty
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752495859

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US Marine Corps Handbook 1941-45 by George Forty Pdf

Employing a range of archive black and white photographs, this book examines the US Marine Corps' organisation and command structure, strategy, tactics and amphibious assault doctrine. Providing biographies of its most influential figures, it also surveys insignia, uniforms and equipment to provide a portrait of the US Marine Corps at war.

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1855324970

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US Marine Corps 1941–45 by Gordon L. Rottman Pdf

While the US Marine Corps was one of the smallest of American armed services in World War II (1939-1945), its contribution to the final victory cannot be overstated. The US Marine Corps may have only comprised 5 percent of America's armed forces, but it suffered 10 percent of all World War II combat casualties. Above all, the amphibious nature of the war in the Pacific imposed on the Marine Corps greater tasks than any it had ever before been called upon to perform. This title details the organization, weapons and equipment of the US Marines of World War II.

Author : Leo J. Daugherty
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Marines
ISBN : 0760309302

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Fighting Techniques of a US Marine, 1941-1945 by Leo J. Daugherty Pdf

FIGHTING TECHNIQUES OF A U.S.MARINE 1941-1945DAUGHERTY

Author : Jim Moran
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526710475

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U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve by Jim Moran Pdf

The little known story of these female reservists and the role they played in WWII, packed with photos. When US Marine Commandant Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb announced the formation of what became the US Marine Corps’ Women’s Reserve, legend has it, the portrait of one of his predecessors fell off the wall and crashed to the floor—in disbelief. The women were called “Lady Leathernecks,” among other nicknames—some less than flattering. This branch of the US Marines had been authorized by the US Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 30, 1942. The law allowed for the acceptance of women into the reserve as commissioned officers and at the enlisted level—effective for the duration of the war plus six months. The purpose of the law was to release officers and men for combat and to replace them with women in shore stations. The result was that between 1943 and 1945 the women of America enlisted in the thousands to “Free a Marine to Fight.” This book, the first of its kind, explores in detail the role of female Marines, or WRs as they were known at the time. It also presents a detailed study of the uniforms of the WRs supported by numerous photographs. This book has been written with the full support of the US Marine Corps Histories Division, the Women Marine Association, and surviving WR veterans.

Author : Lee E Russell
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 085045574X

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The US Marine Corps since 1945 by Lee E Russell Pdf

Lee E Russell utilises his expert knowledge to guide us through the post-WWII history of the Marines, chronicling their involvement in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon and Grenada. The account includes such remarkable exploits as the gruelling Chosin Reservoir campaign, which proved a supreme test of courage and discipline with the Marines isolated and overwhelmingly outnumbered in an unhospitable terrain where temperatures reached as low as -35F at night - they nevertheless emerged unbeaten - and the siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam conflict, providing a comprehensive overview of the history, organisation, appearance and equipment of these famous troops

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782004561

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US World War II Amphibious Tactics by Gordon L. Rottman Pdf

The US armed forces were responsible for many tactical innovations during the years 1941–45, but in no field was US mastery more complete than amphibious warfare. In the vast, almost empty battlefield of the Pacific the US Navy and Marine Corps were obliged to develop every aspect of the amphibious assault landing in painstaking detail, from the design of many new types of vessel, down to the tactics of the rifle platoon hitting the beach, and the logistic system without which they could not have fought their way inland. This fascinating study offers a clear, succinct explanation of every phase of these operations as they evolved during the war years, illustrated with detailed color plates and photographs.

Author : Bruno Alberti
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 2915239991

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USMC Uniforms & Equipment 1941-45 by Bruno Alberti Pdf

Bruno Alberti and Laurent Pradier have been collecting and writing about U S Marine Corps gear for more than a decade and, in that time, have contributed complete series of articles on the topic in the French Militaria Magazine. That sequence of articles is complete and the time has now come for a revised and expanded version of the results of their work as a single bound volume. The US Marine Corps has always enjoyed a special status among the American Armed Forces, as well as boasting distinctive uniforms and emblems. Hundreds of items of clothing, equipment and insignia are illustrated by reenactment photos of the famous 'leathernecks' in the form of large format color plates. Many period photos found in official American archives are also reproduced and help place the reenactment shots in the correct historical context. This new volume maintains the usual exceptional quality standards of Histoire & Collections: carefully-researched historical background, hundreds of concisely captioned color photographs of authentic artifacts and reenactment photographs taken in studio conditions to allow the reader to see the uniforms and equipment in the greatest clarity.

Author : Robert Cressman,J. Michael Wenger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028893751

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Infamous Day by Robert Cressman,J. Michael Wenger Pdf

Author : Norman W. Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041663233

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A Brief History of the United States Marine Corps by Norman W. Hicks Pdf

Author : Mary V. Stremlow
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034202872

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Free a Marine to Fight by Mary V. Stremlow Pdf

Marines in World War 2 Commemorative Series. Discusses how women Marines served in noncombat billets during World War 2. The title "Free a Marine to Fight" means that women Marines served in noncombat jobs so that male Marines could fight in battles. The Marines first began to recruit women after the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942. States that 17,672 women were serving in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in June 1945. Illustrated with many black and white photographs.

Author : Kenneth J. Clifford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : OSU:32435007088537

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The United States Marines in Iceland, 1941-1942 by Kenneth J. Clifford Pdf

The material is this book has been extracted from Chapter 4of Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal- History of the United States Marine Corps Operations in World War II, vol. I by Lt. Col Frank O. Hough, USMC, Maj. Verle E. Ludwig, USMC and Mr. Henry I. Shaw, Jr. In addition, a bibliography and appendix has been added. This work supersedes Marine Corps historical Reference Series pamphlet, no. 34, The United States Marines in Iceland, 1941-1942, published and last reviewed in 1962, by the Historical Branch, G-3 Division, Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps.