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Author:   Rex Alan Smith ,  Gerald A. Meehl
Publisher:   Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Imprint:   Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9780789208170

ISBN 10:   0789208172
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   21 October 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Table of Contents from: Pacific War Stories INTRODUCTION A PACIFIC WAR OVERVIEW 1. ""A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY."" PEARL HARBOR, DECEMBER 7, 1941 FIRMAN BALZA, navy, USS Maryland, battleship RUSSELL McCURDY, marines, USS Arizona, battleship EVERETT HYLAND, navy, USS Pennsylvania, battleship DEL ALDRICH, navy, USS Ramsey, destroyer-minesweeper AL BODENLOS, army, Schofield Barracks HARVEY AND JEAN FRASER, army, Schofield Barracks WAYNE ""JIM"" JOHNSON, army air force, Hickam Field BILL AND RUTH COPE, army air force, Hickam Field TOM LARSON, navy, Pearl Harbor LENORE RICKERT, navy, Pearl Harbor, nurse 2. THE FALL OF THE PHILIPPINES: CORREGIDOR AND THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH, 1941--42 ALAN HANCOCK, army, Bataan Death March IRVING STROBING, army, Corregidor JOHN BRUER, army, Bataan, Corregidor 3. THE DOOLITTLE RAIDERS BOMB TOKYO, APRIL 1942 BILL BOWER, army air force, B-25 pilot 4. ISLAND COMBAT BEGINS AT GUADALCANAL, TARAWA, PELELIU, NEW GUINEA, 1942--44 ROBERT MAHOOD, marines, Guadalcanal 127 CARL ALBRITTON, army, New Guinea, Philippines 134 DAVE BOWMAN, marines, Peleliu, Okinawa 138 5. COPING WITH CASUALTIES: MEDICS AND CORPSMEN, 1942--45 VERN GARRETT, navy, corpsman, USS Yorktown, carrier, and Marine invasions: Tarawa, Guam ROBERT CLACK, navy, corpsman, USS Yorktown, carrier STERLING CALE, navy, corpsman, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal DAVE GUTTERMAN, army, medic, New Guinea, Philippines, Japan 6. COMMUNICATING WITH THE ENEMY: INTERPRETERS, 1942--45 BOB SHEEKS, marines, Japanese language officer, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian DAN WILLIAMS, marines, Japanese language officer, Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima HARRY FUKUHARA, army, Nisei interpreter, New Guinea, Philippines, Hiroshima 7. MANNING THE PT BOATS, 1942--45 DAVE LEVY, navy, pt boat skipper, Solomons, Philippines AL HAHN, navy, pt boat motor machinist mate, Philippines 8. THE WAR IN THE AIR, 1942--45 JOHN BEDDALL, army air force, B-25 radio operator and gunner, Marshalls A.C. KLEYPAS, army air force, B-24 radio operator and gunner, New Guinea, Philippines JIM ROSENBROCK, army air force, P-38 and P-51 armorer, New Guinea, Philippines JOHN W. VINZANT, army air force, B-29 pilot FRED WOLKEN, army air force, C-47 troop carrier pilot, New Guinea, Philippines DON VAN INWEGEN, army air force, B-29 tail gunner BILL MASHAW, navy, Naval Air Transport Service pilot LOUIS MEEHL, army air force, gunner 9. THE WAR AT SEA, 1942--45 RUSSELL FRINK, navy, USS Fletcher, destroyer, Solomons WYLIE DAVIS, navy, USS Chicago, cruiser PERRY MAX JOHNSTON, navy, lst 958 OZ LEVERENZ, navy, destroyer crewman BILL LEWIS, navy, lcsl captain, Okinawa CLARENCE COOK, navy, armed guard, merchant ships BILL POND, navy, USS Tulagi, carrier, deck crew CLARENCE ""DUDE"" STORLA, coast guard, lst 831 GEORGE THOMA, navy, USS Sperry, submarine tender MIKE DeBOLT, navy, USS Portland, cruiser LEO DORSEY, navy, carrier fighter pilot ""EX-CHIEF PETTY OFFICER,"" navy, Underwater Demolition Team [name withheld by request] JIM LOCKHART, navy, submariner 10. LIFE IN THE REAR AREA ISLANDS, 1942--45 FRED GILES, navy, Bora Bora DOUG McEVOY, navy, Midway REX ALAN SMITH, army engineers, Canton, Funafuti, Guam, Philippines CHARLES McNEAL, marines, Samoa ROBERT PHELAN, army, rear area islands CARL HAMILTON, navy, Seabees 11. WAR AS ISLAND NATIVES SAW IT, 1942--45 FALAVI, coast-watcher, Beru, Gilberts KIMIUO AISEK, Truk JORGE CRISTOBAL, navy, Pearl Harbor, Guam 12. THE VIEW FROM JAPAN, 1942--45 PAUL KURODA, Tokyo AKIRA KASAHARA, Tokyo 13. THE FINAL PHASE OF ISLAND COMBAT, PHILIPPINES, SAIPAN, GUAM, TINIAN, IWO JIMA, OKINAWA, 1944--45 JIM MILLIFF, marines, Bougainville, Guam HARLAN WALL, army, Philippines FRED SAIZ, army, New Guinea, Philippines MILO CUMPSTON, marines, Iwo Jima BILL HASTINGS, marines, Iwo Jima JOE WOODS, marines, Saipan, Iwo Jima 14. FACING THE KAMIKAZE, 1944--45 JIM SPRIGGS, navy, USS Laffey, destroyer BOB KARR, navy, USS Laffey, destroyer LARRY DELEWSKI, navy, USS Laffey, destroyer DALE KILLIAN, coast guard, lst 170 15. THE SURRENDER, AND ENTERING JAPAN, 1945 HOADLEY DEAN, army, advance party into Japan KEN GUENTHER, army, Philippines, Hokkaido THE PACIFIC WAR IN RETROSPECT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX"

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Rex Alan Smith and Gerald A. Meehl are the co-authors of Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific. Smith is a veteran of 36 months with the Army Engineers in the Pacific. He is also the author of Abbeville's One Last Look and The Carving of Mount Rushmore. Gerald A. Meehl has travelled extensively in the South Pacific over the last 30 years and has photographed every major Pacific battlefield and site.

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