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Storm landings: epic amphibious battles in the Central Pacific / Joseph H. Alexander

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Annapolis Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1997Description: xv, 242 pages: illustrations; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1557500320 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: The sudden American proclivity for amphibious frontal assaults against fortified islands astonished Japanese commanders, who called them “storm landings” because they differed so sharply from the limited landings of 1942-43. This is the story of seven epic assaults from the sea against murderous enemy fire-Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
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The sudden American proclivity for amphibious frontal assaults against fortified islands astonished Japanese commanders, who called them “storm landings” because they differed so sharply from the limited landings of 1942-43. This is the story of seven epic assaults from the sea against murderous enemy fire-Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

AMPHIBIOUS FRONTAL ASSAULTS, CENTRAL PACIFIC

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