Victory fever on Guadalcanal : Japan's first land defeat of World War II /
Bartsch, William H., 1933-
Victory fever on Guadalcanal : Japan's first land defeat of World War II / William H. Bartsch ; foreword by Richard B. Frank. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A and M University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; number 147 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"You shitheads are here to learn to fight!" -- "Vandegrift, I have some very disconcerting news" -- "I'm beginning to doubt whether there's a Jap on the whole damned island" -- "May I retake Tulagi too?" -- "The bastards are in the trees!" -- "Was this going to be the real test?" -- "F -- k Babe Ruth!" -- "Crying, praying, and cursing all at the same time" -- "Goddamn, they got me in the eyes!" -- "We aren't going to let those people lay up there all day" -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Officers, 1st Marine Regiment, Combat Group B (Reinforced), Tenaru River Subsector -- Appendix B. Officers, 1st Marine Regiment, Combat Group B (Reinforced), South Subsector -- Appendix C. US Marine casualties, Battle of the Tenaru, August 21, 1942 -- Appendix D. Officers and staff, First Echelon, Ichiki Detachment.
Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use. The Japanese Army countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the command of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki. The attack that followed would prove to be the first of four attempts by the Japanese over six months to re.
9781623492205
Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943.
Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943.
Electronic Books.
D767 / .V538 2014
Victory fever on Guadalcanal : Japan's first land defeat of World War II / William H. Bartsch ; foreword by Richard B. Frank. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A and M University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; number 147 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"You shitheads are here to learn to fight!" -- "Vandegrift, I have some very disconcerting news" -- "I'm beginning to doubt whether there's a Jap on the whole damned island" -- "May I retake Tulagi too?" -- "The bastards are in the trees!" -- "Was this going to be the real test?" -- "F -- k Babe Ruth!" -- "Crying, praying, and cursing all at the same time" -- "Goddamn, they got me in the eyes!" -- "We aren't going to let those people lay up there all day" -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Officers, 1st Marine Regiment, Combat Group B (Reinforced), Tenaru River Subsector -- Appendix B. Officers, 1st Marine Regiment, Combat Group B (Reinforced), South Subsector -- Appendix C. US Marine casualties, Battle of the Tenaru, August 21, 1942 -- Appendix D. Officers and staff, First Echelon, Ichiki Detachment.
Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use. The Japanese Army countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the command of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki. The attack that followed would prove to be the first of four attempts by the Japanese over six months to re.
9781623492205
Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943.
Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943.
Electronic Books.
D767 / .V538 2014