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U.S. Marines and Amphibious Warfare / Philip A. Crowl, Jeter A. Isely.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2407Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1951Description: 1 online resource (656 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691627342
  • 9781400879465
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.545973 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. MISSION OF THE U.S. MARINES, THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT -- II. EVOLUTION OF AN AMPHIBIOUS DOCTRINE, 1901-1934 -- III. TRAINING FOR AMPHIBIOUS WAR, 1934-1942 -- IV. BACKGROUND FOR GUADALCANAL, THE DECISION TO ATTACK -- V. INITIAL OFFENSIVES, SOLOMONS-NEW BRITAIN-NEW GUINEA -- VI. THE FIRST MAJOR ASSAULT, TARAWA -- VII. THE MARSHALLS, GAINING MOMENTUM -- VIII. THE MARIANAS, BASES FOR THE A.A.F. -- IX. PALAU AND THE PHILIPPINES: MARINES IN SUPPORT OF MACARTHUR -- X. THE SUPREME TEST, IWO JIMA -- XI. OKINAWA, SPRINGBOARD TO JAPAN -- XII. AMPHIBIOUS PROGRESS, 1941-1945 -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary: "Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility of amphibious warfare. Relentlessly accurate and impartial." -N.Y. Times.Originally published in 1951.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. MISSION OF THE U.S. MARINES, THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT -- II. EVOLUTION OF AN AMPHIBIOUS DOCTRINE, 1901-1934 -- III. TRAINING FOR AMPHIBIOUS WAR, 1934-1942 -- IV. BACKGROUND FOR GUADALCANAL, THE DECISION TO ATTACK -- V. INITIAL OFFENSIVES, SOLOMONS-NEW BRITAIN-NEW GUINEA -- VI. THE FIRST MAJOR ASSAULT, TARAWA -- VII. THE MARSHALLS, GAINING MOMENTUM -- VIII. THE MARIANAS, BASES FOR THE A.A.F. -- IX. PALAU AND THE PHILIPPINES: MARINES IN SUPPORT OF MACARTHUR -- X. THE SUPREME TEST, IWO JIMA -- XI. OKINAWA, SPRINGBOARD TO JAPAN -- XII. AMPHIBIOUS PROGRESS, 1941-1945 -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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"Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility of amphibious warfare. Relentlessly accurate and impartial." -N.Y. Times.Originally published in 1951.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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