Among Heroes : A Marine Corps Rifle Company on Peleliu

• Tác giả: Jack R Ainsworth, Laurence Pope
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0160913822
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 355.009 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
• Thông tin xuất bản: Quantico, VA Marine Corps University Press (MCUP), 2011
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (104 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 226640
• Chủ đề: 1. Military history

Tóm tắt

Few Americans know of the battle of Peleliu. It never received the iconic recognition of the other amphibious assaults in the Pacific during World War II such as Iwo Jima or Okinawa. At the time of the invasion in 1944, only a handful of journalists even covered the operation because it was expected to be a short action with a quick American victory. It became the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history given the number of casualties compared to the number of troops involved. It lasted far longer than senior planners had estimated and the tenacious defense by the Japanese took a tremendous toll on the Marines' headlong assaults on their well-fortified positions.