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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812947803321

Autore

Lane Kerry

Titolo

Guadalcanal Marine [[electronic resource] /] / Kerry L. Lane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2004

ISBN

1-283-65796-1

1-60473-055-2

1-4237-3204-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Disciplina

940.54/265933/092

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Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - United States

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Pacific Ocean

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; X; Introduction; Abbreviations and Terms; Key to Military Map Symbols; Part I. Guadalcanal; 1.Making of a Marine; 2. Preparing for Combat; 3. Wartime Expansion; 4. Shoving off to Make History; 5. Guadalcanal, Their Finest Hour; 6. Stranded; 7. The Battle of the Tenaru; 8. The Battle of Bloody Ridge; 9. After the Ridge; 10. September Matanikau Action; 11. October Matanikau Battle; 12. Second Assault on Bloody Ridge; 13. The Final Phase of the Campaign; 14. Guadalcanal in Perspective; 15. Departing for the Land Down Under; 16. Australia Remembered; 17. Going Back to War

Part II. Cape Gloucester18. Cape Gloucester, the Green Inferno; 19. The Battle of Suicide Creek; 20. Cape Gloucester in Perspective; 21. Pavuvu; 22. Homeward Bound; 23. The Last Post; Glossary; America terms; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; K; M; P; S; T; U; Australian terms; A; B; C; D; F; G; S; Japanese terms; B; H; R; S; T; Z; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; Z

Sommario/riassunto

In Guadalcanal Marine, Kerry L. Lane recounts the dark reality of combat experienced by the men of the 1st Marine Division fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester. With eighty gripping photographs and his text, he brings to life the struggles of his companions as they



achieve these two astonishing victories.   Lane, a sixteen-year-old farm boy from North Carolina, battled the Japanese and rose to heroism powering a bulldozer to bridge ""Suicide Creek"" in the swamps on Cape Gloucester. There he led his Marine comrades to victory.   Lane describes the trials of the common Mari