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War in the Pacific, Volume 1
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NEW 2012 EDITION! More pages — more photos!
War in the Pacific
Volume 1
Ray Merriam, Editor
Merriam Press Military Monograph 136
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Fourth Edition (January 2012)
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Paperback (ISBN 978-1468144871) — #MM136-P — $16.95
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PDF file on DVD disc sent by mail — #MM136-PDF — $4.99
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354 – 6 × 9 inch pages
- 378 photos and illustrations
- 1 map
- Booksellers: Available from distributors and direct from Merriam Press
Twenty-nine
articles covering a wide range of aspects of the war in the Pacific
during World War II, including accounts by veterans.
This was originally published as World War II Journal #1. This edition has a new format and includes over 300 more photos.
Contents
(1) The Battle for Iwo Jima: The Battle and the Flag Raising
(2) Another View of the Iwo Jima Flag Raisings
(3) Backdoor to the Philippines
(4) The Sentry
(5) Guts, Grit and Goals: A Vivid Illustration of the Power of the Human Mind
(6) Darned Clever These Chinese… and Confounding
(7) A Tale of Two Rings
(8) Former Serviceman Reunited with His Bicycle
(9) The Devil Dog
(10) Incident on Biak Island
(11) You Can Still be a Gentleman… Even Though You Served in the Pacific
(12) POW of Japanese Freed Self
(13) “Dear John…”
(14) A Square Looks at the “Bomb”
(15) Prelude to War in the Pacific: The Crisis and its Origins
(16) Communist Guerrilla Warfare Against the Japanese: Base Area Utilization and Expansion
(17) Douglas A. Munro: Coast Guard Hero of Guadalcanal
(18) The Battle of New Guinea: January 1942-February 1944
(19) Defenders of Wake Island, 1941
(20) The Nightmare that was Peleliu
(21) The 11th Marines in World War II
(22) Dead-End Roads for the Japanese: Burma – Coral Sea – Midway
(23) From Hong Kong to the Gates of India
(24) New Year’s Blast at Okinawa: The Tragedy of 2 January 1946
(25) A Talk with Some Japs
(26) Christmas on Bougainville
(27) My Bare-Handed War Against the Emperor’s Bushido Killers
(28) Return to the River Kwai
(29) Miracle in New Guinea
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German Raiders in the Pacific by S. D. Waters, a Merriam Press Original Reprint Publication, Military Monograph 62, available in paperback and hardcover.
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Summary Report (Pacific War) by USSBS available as a PDF file.
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Prepared under the direction of The Chief of the Imperial General Staff
The War Office, December 1944, available as a PDF file sent by mail on a DVD data disk.
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Chronology of U.S. Navy Submarine Operations in the Pacific, 1939-1942 by David L. Kimble, a Merriam Press Original Publication, Military Monograph MM11, available in paperback.
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