عنوان

Fighting for MacArthur :

شابک

1612510574 (hbk. : alk. paper)

شابک

1612510620 (ebook)

شابک

9781612510576 (hbk. : alk. paper)

شابک

9781612510620 (ebook)

شماره

b421352

عنوان اصلي

Fighting for MacArthur :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the Navy and Marine Corps' desperate defense of the Philippines /

نام نخستين پديدآور

John Gordon

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Annapolis, Md. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Naval Institute Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2011

نام خاص و کميت اثر

viii, 370 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill., maps ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

The Navy and Marine Corps in the Philippines -- The final days of peace -- War begins -- The bombing of the Cavite Navy Yard -- Waiting for the main attack -- The retreat to Bataan and Corregidor -- Settling in for the siege -- Longoskawayan Point -- Defeating the first Japanese offensive -- The lull -- The fall of Bataan -- State of the beach defenses -- The artillery duel -- The final bombardment -- The battle for Corregidor -- Surrender -- Reflections -- Appendix A. Asiatic fleet, 7 December 1941 -- Appendix B. U.S. Navy personnel, 1 December 1941 -- Appendix C. Japanese artillery units available for bombardment of Corregidor

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"As the only single-volume work to offer a full account of Navy and Marine Corps actions in the Philippines during World War II, this book provides a unique source of information on the early part of the war. It is filled with never-before-published details about the fighting, based on a rich collection of American and newly discovered Japanese sources, and includes a revealing discussion of the buildup of tensions between Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the Navy that continued for the remainder of the war. U.S. Army veteran and defense analyst John Gordon describes in considerable detail the unusual missions of the Navy and Marine Corps in the largely Army campaign, where sailors fought as infantrymen alongside their Marine comrades at Bataan and Corregidor, crews of Navy ships manned the Army's heavy coastal artillery weapons, and Navy submarines desperately tried to supply the men with food and ammunition. He also chronicles the last stand of the Navy's colorful China gunboats at Manila Bay. The book gives the most detailed account ever published of the Japanese bombing of the Cavite Navy Yard outside Manila on the third day of the war, which was the worst damage inflicted on a U.S. Navy installation since the British burned the Washington Navy Yard in 1814. It also closely examines the surrender of the 4th Marines at Corregidor, the only time in history that the U.S. Marine Corps lost a regiment in combat. To provide readers with a Japanese perspective of the fighting, Gordon draws on the recently discovered diary of a leader of the Japanese amphibious assault force that fought against the Navy's provisional infantry battalion on southern Bataan, and he also makes full use of the U.S. ship logs and the 4th Marine unit diary that were evacuated from Manila Bay shortly before the U.S. forces surrendered."--Publisher description

موضوع مستند نشده

MacArthur, Douglas,1880-1964

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.-- History-- World War, 1939-1945

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.-- History-- World War, 1939-1945

موضوع مستند نشده

World War, 1939-1945-- Campaigns-- Philippines

موضوع مستند نشده

World War, 1939-1945-- Naval operations, American

موضوع مستند نشده

World War, 1939-1945-- Pacific Area

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Gordon, John,1956-

تاريخ عمليات

20120202084359.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y