Shooting the Pacific War : Marine Corps combat photography in WWII /
Marine Corps combat photography in World War Two
Thayer Soule.
- Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, (c)2000.
- 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
I Become a Marine -- Quantico, New River, and the First Division -- Overseas to New Zealand and North to Combat -- The Early Days on Guadalcanal -- Tenaru, the Tokyo Express, and Bloody Ridge -- Lunga Life, the Air Raids, and Naval Bombardment -- The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal -- Australia -- Home Leave -- The Golden Days at Quantico -- Guam and the Third Division -- Iwo Jima -- Great Orders -- War's End at Pearl Harbor.
"Thayer Soule couldn't believe his orders. As a junior officer with no military training or indoctrination and less than ten weeks of active duty behind him, he had been assigned to be photographic officer for the First Marine Division. The Corps had never had a photographic division before, much less a field photographic unit. But Soule accepted the challenge, created the unit from scratch, established policies for photography, and led his men into combat."--Jacket. "Shooting the Pacific War is based on Soule's detailed wartime journals. Soule was in the unique position to interact with men at all levels of the military, and he provides intriguing closeups of generals, admirals, sergeants, and privates - everyone he met and worked with along the way. Though he witnessed the horror of war firsthand, he also writes of the vitality and intense comradeship that he and his fellow Marines experienced."--Jacket.
9780813157306
Soule, Thayer.
World War, 1939-1945--Photography. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. War photographers--United States--Biography.