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

• Autore: Lane Kerry
• Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (375 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.54/265933/092; B
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - United States; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Pacific Ocean
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Guadalcanal Marine
• ISBN: 1-283-65796-1; 1-60473-055-2; 1-4237-3204-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812947803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II