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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Smith Robert Ross"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"United States army in WWII - the Pacific - the approach to the Philippines / / Robert Ross Smith"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"[Place of publication not identified] : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , [2013]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2013"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-78289-404-7"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[Illustrated edition.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (771 pages)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"United States Army in WWII"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"940.53"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"World War, 1939-1945"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- TABLES -- CHARTS -- MAPS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I - THE STRATEGIC BACKGROUND -- Determining the Strategy of the Approach -- General MacArthur's Concepts -- The Joint Chiefs' Strategic Plans -- Acceleration of Pacific Operations in Early 1944 -- The Marshalls, Truk, and the Admiralties -- Washington Planning Conferences, February-March -- The New Directive for 1944 -- CHAPTER II - PLANNING AND PREPARATION FOR THE HOLLANDIA - AITAPE OPERATION -- Theater Organization -- The Hollandia Area -- The Terrain -- Japanese Developments at Hollandia -- The Decision to Take Aitape -- Obtaining Carrier-Based Air Support -- Land-Based Air Support -- The Aitape Area -- Additional Air Support Problems -- The Forces and Their Missions -- The Air Plan and Organization -- Naval Plans -- The Ground Forces -- Logistics -- The Logistic Plan -- Obtaining the Shipping -- Loading and Unloading Problems -- Problems of Subordinate Commands -- The Hollandia Tactical Plan -- Humboldt Bay -- Tanahmerah Bay -- Preliminary Operations and the Approach -- Intelligence Operations -- Air Operations -- Attack Force Preparations -- CHAPTER III - THE HOLLANDIA OPERATIONS -- The Landings at Tanahmerah Bay -- The Assault -- The Landing Plans Are Changed -- The 24th Division's Drive to the Airfields -- The First Day of the Advance -- Logistic Problems Delay the Advance -- Supply Difficulties, 24-25 April -- The Airfields Are Secured -- The Seizure of Hollandia Town -- The Beachhead at Humboldt Bay -- Hollandia Falls -- The Drive Inland from Humboldt Bay -- The Landing of the 186th "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Infantry -- To the Shore of Lake Sentani -- Amphibious Movement on Lake Sentani -- Mopping-Up Operations -- Logistic Problems of the RECKLESS Task Force -- The Fire -- Supplying Forces Inland -- The End of the Operation."]
[{"$nulls":4},"CHAPTER IV - THE JAPANESE: PEARL HARBOR THROUGH HOLLANDIA -- Strategy and Dispositions to April 1944 -- The Japanese Situation to Mid-1943 -- Japanese Strategic Withdrawals to April 1944 -- Japan's Pacific Order of Battle, April 1944 -- The Japanese at Hollandia -- Japanese Planning and Command at Hollandia -- Japanese Reactions to Hollandia -- Japanese Withdrawal from Hollandia -- CHAPTER V - PRELUDE TO THE BATTLE OF THE DRINIUMOR -- Securing the Airfield Area -- The Tactical Plan -- The Capture of the Airfields -- Airfield Construction and Supporting Arms -- Securing the Flanks -- The Enemy Situation to 4 May -- Contact with the 18th Army on the East Flank -- Reorganization of the PERSECUTION Task Force -- East Sector Troops Meet the Enemy -- Withdrawal from Yakamul -- Operations Along the Driniumor -- Support of East Sector Operations -- CHAPTER VI - DEPLOYMENT FOR BATTLE -- Reinforcement and Reorganization of the PERSECUTION Task Force -- The Decision to Reinforce Aitape -- Reorganizations and Redispositions -- Gathering Combat Intelligence -- Reconnaissance in Force Eastward -- Redispositions Along the Driniumor -- Intelligence, 10 July -- The 18th Army Moves West -- The 18th Army's Plan -- Deployment for the Attack -- CHAPTER VII - THE BATTLE OF THE DRINIUMOR PHASE I: THE 18TH ARMY ATTACKS -- Withdrawal of the PERSECUTION Covering Force -- Action During the Night of 10-11 July -- The Decision to Withdraw -- Withdrawal to the Second Delaying Position -- Restoration of the Driniumor Line -- Preparations for Counterattack -- Action in the Coastal Sector -- The Attack South from the Paup Villages -- South Force and the Gap -- Operations West of the Driniumor -- The Japanese Attack on the South Flank -- Japanese Attack Preparations -- The Japanese Retake Afua -- Changes in PERSECUTION Task Force Plans."]
[{"$nulls":4},"CHAPTER VIII - THE BATTLE OF THE DRINIUMOR PHASE II: THE 18TH ARMY RETREATS -- Securing the Afua Area -- The Relief of Troop C -- Afua and the Triangle -- Allied and Japanese Plans -- The Japanese Retreat from Afua -- Envelopment to the East -- South Along Niumen Creek -- TED Force and the Withdrawing 18th Army -- Results of TED Force Operations -- The End of the Aitape Operation -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER IX - THE SEIZURE OF WAKDE ISLAND -- The Sarmi-Biak Plan -- The Strategic Background -- The First Wakde-Sarmi-Biak Plan. -- The Plan is Changed -- The Wakde Plan -- The Amphibious Plan -- The Air Support Plan -- Supply and Reinforcement -- Airfield Construction Problems -- Preparations for the Capture of Wakde Island -- Small-Island Warfare, Southwest Pacific Style -- The Target-Terrain and Defenses -- The First Day -- A New Air Base on the Road to the Philippines -- CHAPTER X - LONE TREE HILL: THE INITIAL ATTACKS -- The Japanese at Wakde-Sarmi -- Japanese Plans for Western New Guinea, April-May 1944 -- Dispositions of the Yuki Group -- Reactions to the Allied Landings -- The 158th Infantry Against Lone Tree Hill -- Preliminaries to a Mainland Campaign -- West to the Tirfoam River -- Discovering the Japanese Defenses -- The Defile -- The 158th Infantry Withdraws -- Final Operations of the 158th Infantry -- Redispositions of the TORNADO Task Force -- Japanese Attacks East of the Tor -- The Japanese Withdraw -- The Relief of the 158th Infantry -- CHAPTER XI - LONE TREE HILL AND BEYOND -- The 6th Division Against Lone Tree Hill -- The Objective -- To the Top of Lone Tree Hill -- Holding Lone Tree Hill -- Final Operations in the Wakde-Sarmi Area -- Mopping Up by the 6th Division -- The End of the Operation -- Epilogue -- The "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Results of the Wakde-Sarmi Operation -- CHAPTER XII - BIAK: THE PLAN, THE LANDING, AND THE ENEMY -- The Biak Plan -- The Objective."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Organization, Logistics, and Intelligence -- The Landing Plan -- The Landing -- Preparations and Approach -- The Assault -- The 162d Infantry on Z Day -- Supporting Arms and Services, Z Day -- The Japanese on Biak -- Japanese Defenses on Biak -- Dispositions of the Biak Detachment -- Reactions to the Allied Landings -- CHAPTER XIII - WEST TO MOKMER DROME -- An Initial Reverse -- Prelude to Retreat -- The First Attack Ends in Retreat -- Preparations for a New Attack -- Reinforcement of the HURRICANE Task Force -- Plans for a New Attack -- The Seizure of Mokmer Drome -- Action at the Surveyed Strip -- West Toward the Airdromes -- To the Beach -- CHAPTER XIV - FRUSTRATION AT MOKMER DROME -- Reinforcements for the 186th Infantry -- Japanese Reactions to the Westward Advance -- The Decision to Reinforce the 186th Infantry -- The 162d Infantry Moves to Mokmer Drome -- Operations North of Mokmer Drome -- The Plan of Attack -- Meeting Resistance on the Low Ridge -- To the Rim of the West Caves -- Allied Command at Biak -- Air and Naval Base Development to Mid-June -- Changes in Command -- CHAPTER XV - THE JAPANESE REINFORCE BIAK -- Biak and Japanese Naval Plans -- Japanese Naval Planning, Early 1944 -- The Japanese Decision to Reinforce Biak -- The KON Operation -- The First KON Operation -- The Second KON Operation -- The Third KON Operation -- Reinforcements by Barge During KON -- Results of the KON Operation -- Facts and Speculation -- Effects of KON at Biak -- CHAPTER XVI - BIAK: THE REDUCTION OF THE JAPANESE POCKETS -- The Reduction of the West Caves -- The Attack Continues -- Preparations For a New Attack -- The Fall of the West Caves -- Securing the Western Area -- Hill 320 and The Teardrop -- Mopping Up in the Western Area -- The Reduction of the East Caves -- The Reduction of the Ibdi Pocket -- Operations of the 162d Infantry at the Ibdi Pocket."]
[{"$nulls":4},"The 163d Infantry at the Ibdi Pocket -- The End of the Operation -- Mopping Up -- Medical Problems and Casualties -- Logistics and Base Development -- CHAPTER XVII - OPERATIONS ON NOEMFOOR ISLAND -- The Noemfoor Plan -- The Terrain and the Enemy -- Organization of the Forces -- Logistics and Tactics -- The Landing -- Approach and Bombardment -- The Assault -- Ordering the 503d Parachute Infantry Forward -- The 503d Parachute Infantry Drops at Noemfoor -- The Occupation of Noemfoor Island -- Hill 201 -- Mopping Up -- Base Development on Noemfoor -- Civil Affairs and Atrocities -- Construction and Unloading -- CHAPTER XVIII - AIRFIELDS ON THE VOGELKOP PENINSULA -- Early Plans for the Vogelkop -- Oil -- Cancellation of the Sorong-Waigeo Plan -- The Sansapor-Mar Plan -- Plans and Planning -- Staging and Rehearsing Problems -- Engineer Problems -- Operations in the Sansapor-Mar Area -- The Landing -- Post D Day Operations at Sansapor-Mar -- Medical Problems -- Airfield Construction -- CHAPTER XIX - THE PALAUS AND MOROTAI: STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL PLANNING -- The Strategic Setting -- General MacArthur's Planning -- Central Pacific Plans -- Strategic Air Support -- The Objectives -- The Terrain -- The Japanese -- Organization, Tactics, and Logistics -- The Organization and Missions of the Forces -- The Palau Tactical Plan -- Logistics of the Palau Operation -- The Tactical and Logistic Plan for Morotai -- CHAPTER XX - THE MOROTAI OPERATION -- The Landing -- Final Preparations and the Approach -- Air Support and Naval Bombardment -- The Landing Beaches -- Securing and Developing Morotai -- Expanding the Hold -- Supporting Arms and Services -- Airfield Construction -- CHAPTER XXI - THE "]
[{"$nulls":4},"LANDING ON PELELIU AND ANGAUR -- Preliminary Air and Naval Bombardment -- The Peleliu Beachhead -- The Decision to Land on Angaur -- The Assault on Angaur -- The Landing."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Operations Inland on 17 September."]