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Storm Landings - Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific (Paperback)
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Storm Landings - Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific (Paperback)
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The Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Adm. Chester
W. Nimitz unleashed his Central Pacific drive, spearheaded by U.S.
Marines. The sudden American proclivity for bold amphibious
assaults into the teeth of prepared defenses astonished Japanese
commanders, who called them storm landings because they differed
sharply from earlier campaigns. This is the story of seven now-epic
long-range assaults executed against murderous enemy fire at
Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa - and
a potential eighth, Kyushu. The author describes each clash as
demonstrating a growing U.S. ability to concentrate an overwhelming
naval force against a distant strategic objective and literally
kick down the front door. The battles were violent, thoroughly
decisive, and always bloody, with the landing force never
relinquishing the offensive. The cost of storming these seven
fortified islands was great: 74,805 combat casualties for the
Marines and their Navy comrades. Losses among participating Army
and offshore Navy units spiked the total to 100,000 dead and
wounded. Award-winning historian Joseph Alexander relates this
extraordinary story with an easy narrative style bolstered by years
of research in original battle accounts, new Japanese translations,
and fresh interviews with survivors. Richly illustrated and
abounding with human-interest anecdotes about colorful web-footed
amphibians, Storm Landings vividly portrays the sheer drama of
these three-dimensional battles whose magnitude and ferocity may
never again be seen in this world.
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