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The Fairbairn-Sykes Commando dagger has become iconic as the most
widely recognized fighting knife in the world. The origins of the
dagger can be traced to Shanghai in the 1930s where W. E. Fairbairn
and US Marine officers including Sam Yeaton carried out experiments
in developing what they considered the perfect knife for close
combat.
The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific. The battle of Savo Island on the night of 9 August 1942, saw the Japanese inflict a sever defeat on the Allied force, driving them away from Guadalcanal and leaving the just-landed marines in a perilously exposed position. This was the start of a series of night battles that culminated in the First and Second battles of Guadalcanal, fought on the nights of 13 and 15 November. One further major naval action followed, the battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942, when the US Navy once again suffered a severe defeat, but this time it was too late to alter the course of the battle as the Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal in early February 1943.This title will detail the contrasting fortunes experienced by both sides over the intense course of naval battles around the island throughout the second half of 1942 that did so much to turn the tide in the Pacific.
The German Tiger heavy tank was a monster of a machine that
dominated the battlefields of Europe. One of the most feared
weapons of World War II, the Tiger gained an aura of invincibility
that was only shattered by the introduction of the Sherman Firefly
during the summer of 1944. Specifically designed by the British to
combat the Tiger, the Sherman Firefly was based on the standard
American M4A4 Sherman medium tank, but was fitted with a powerful
17-pounder gun which made it a deadly opponent for the Tiger.
In this book Steven J Zaloga offers a fascinating comparison of the
combat performance of the two most important tanks involved in the
crucial fighting of 1944, the Sherman and the Panther. Examining
the design and development of both tanks, Zaloga notes the obvious
superiority that the Panther had over the Sherman and how the
highly engineered German tank was eventually beaten back, not
necessarily by the improvements made to the Sherman, but rather by
the superior numbers of tanks that the Allies were able to put into
the field.
Operation Husky, the Anglo-American amphibious landings on Sicily
in July 1943 were the proving ground for all subsequent Allied
amphibious operations including Salerno, Anzio, and D-Day in
Normandy. Husky's strategic objective was to knock Italy out of the
war, a mission that ultimately proved successful. But it also
demonstrated the growing ability of Britain and the United States
to conduct extremely complex combined-arms attacks involving not
only amphibious landings, but also airborne assaults. It was in
many ways the precursor of all modern joint operations through the
recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as two different armies and
navies with their own methods of command and control adjusted their
practices to conduct a harmonious operation. This stood in stark
contrast to the increasingly dysfunctional German-Italian alliance
which finally broke down on Sicily.
An examination of the 'small boat' war between the Germans and the British in the English Channel. During the Second World War, German E-Boats were so active in the English Channel that the narrow stretch of water became known as 'E-Boat Alley'. To counter the threat of these E-Boats, Britain brought its coastal forces to bear - flotillas of small Motor Torpedo and Gun Boats (MTBs and MGBs) and Motor Launches (MLs). As the Germans sought to maintain their supremacy in Channel waters, they continued to develop their E-Boat designs to accommodate more armor and more firepower. Rather than matching the newer E-Boats for armament, the British developed several types to fulfill the varied roles for which the Kriegsmarine were attempting to use the E-Boat. Illustrated with high-quality photographs and battlescene artworks, this book details this developing conflict, examining the evolution of the boats involved, and covering their battles from fights in the Thames Estuary to the build-up for D-Day.
Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years. In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd Division set out to prove him wrong, overcoming serious planning errors to fight a 76-hour battle of unprecedented savagery. The cost would be more than 3000 Marine casualties at the hands of a garrison of some 3700. The lessons learned would dispel forever any illusions that Americans had about the fighting quality of the Japanese.
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