World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia (Military History of the United States)
Language: English
Pages: 1213
ISBN: B000OT7W3K
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Stanley Sandler, one of America's most respected and best-known military historians, has brought together over 300 entries by some 200 specialists in the field to create the first encyclopedia specifically devoted to the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Extending far beyond battles and hardware, the coverage ranges from high policy-making, grand strategy, and the significant persons and battles of the conflict, to the organization of the Allied and Japanese divisions, aircraft, armor, artillery, psychological warfare, warships, and the home fronts, covering the interactions of each topic along the way.
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prayer. Also noted in this article was a statement by Major General Raymond G.Lehman, the commander of the 93d, who said, “They have the same courage, the same fear and fighting spunk as any other soldiers. They are quick to learn and eager to perform. They…are about the best disciplined men in the Army.” This article and another in Time both commended the 25th for beating off frontal attacks and infiltrators. The 25th Regiment, noted Time on May 29, 1944, can be said to have “fought and
heavy armament enabled the B-25 to suppress most ship antiaircraft fire and made it a highly successful merchant-ship killer in the Pacific theater. Some later models had no less than twelve .50-caliber machine guns and a 75-mm cannon. The B-25 had a crew of five. A total of 11,000 were produced. The Martin B-26 Marauder entered service in 1942. A fast, efficient medium bomber, its early problems earned it the nickname of “Widow Maker” or “The Baltimore Whore” (“No visible means of support”).
exigencies brought about a redeployment of the group, with the first thought being to defend the increasingly important Burma Road. With their P-40 nose cones now bearing the soon-to-be-famous shark’s mouth (an affectation copied from a photo of Australian-flown Tomahawks in North Africa), one squadron was sent to Rangoon, while remaining forces moved to Kunming (China). First blood was drawn on December 20 as the air warning net reported ten Japanese bombers flying out of Indochina over Yunnan
United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific. Strategy and Command: The First Two Years. Office of the Chief of Military History (1962). Whitman, John W. Bataan: Our Last Ditch. The Bataan Campaign, 1942 (1990). John W.Whitman SEE ALSO MacArthur, Douglas; Philippines, Fall of the; Quezon, Manuel Army Air Corps/Air Forces, U.S. To understand fully the U.S. Army Air Corps/Air Forces in the Pacific during World War II, one must look at the development of the country’s air forces
The Japanese entered the artillery arena later than almost any other modern nation. Most Japanese had never even seen a cannon before the arrival of Perry in 1853. Even for many years afterward, Bushido doctrine militated against modern armaments, considering them cowardly and dishonorable. With the restoration of the emperors in 1867, the Japanese lacked modern firearms as well as the know-how and industrial facilities to make them. For many years, all Japanese artillery was imported from
