Including extensive information only found in scattered sources
or official documents and archives, this book provides detailed
coverage of all organizational aspects of the Marine Corps units in
World War II's Pacific Theater. It gives in-depth background
information on the units' functions, evolution, designation
practices, tactical organization of combat units, and extensive
statistical and technical data including 21 maps. It covers
atypical subjects such as Marines in China, and female and African
American marines. Extensive additional data on weapons, U.S. Navy
and Army backgrounds, Japanese Army and Navy backgrounds, code
names, and comparative ranks of U.S. forces appear in the
appendices. The book is a valuable one-stop resource for
researchers, historians, military history enthusiasts, and war
gamers.
As a complete reference source on the Marine Corps, the book
provides an evolutionary study of the Marine Corps' wartime
expansion and organization. It closely examines the prewar and
wartime growth of the Marine Corps as well as its postwar reduction
while providing complete background information on all ground and
air units in the Pacific and their evolution. Information on each
Marine Corps unit includes: dates in combat, location and code name
of landing beaches, time of landing, island operation code names,
date the island was declared secure, task organization for combat
order of battle of the opposing Japanese units and their
casualties, attached U.S. Army and U.S. Navy units, and much more.
The book is the definitive source of organizational
information.
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