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005			20240726104915.0
008			141119s2014 txu ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9781623492205 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aD767 _b.V538 2014
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBartsch, William H., _d1933- _e1
245	1	0	_aVictory fever on Guadalcanal : _bJapan's first land defeat of World War II / _cWilliam H. Bartsch ; foreword by Richard B. Frank.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aCollege Station : _bTexas A and M University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aWilliams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; _vnumber 147
504			_a2
505	0	0	_a"You shitheads are here to learn to fight!" -- _t"Vandegrift, I have some very disconcerting news" -- _t"I'm beginning to doubt whether there's a Jap on the whole damned island" -- _t"May I retake Tulagi too?" -- _t"The bastards are in the trees!" -- _t"Was this going to be the real test?" -- _t"F -- _tk Babe Ruth!" -- _t"Crying, praying, and cursing all at the same time" -- _t"Goddamn, they got me in the eyes!" -- _t"We aren't going to let those people lay up there all day" -- _tEpilogue -- _tAppendix A. Officers, 1st Marine Regiment, Combat Group B (Reinforced), Tenaru River Subsector -- _tAppendix B. Officers, 1st Marine Regiment, Combat Group B (Reinforced), South Subsector -- _tAppendix C. US Marine casualties, Battle of the Tenaru, August 21, 1942 -- _tAppendix D. Officers and staff, First Echelon, Ichiki Detachment.
520	0		_aFollowing 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.
530			_a2 _ub
650		0	_aGuadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943.
650		4	_aGuadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=906704&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell