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War in the Pacific, Volume 2

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War in the Pacific

Volume 2

Ray Merriam, Editor

A Merriam Press Original Publication
Military Monograph 149

First Edition (December 2011)
223 – 6 × 9 inch pages
B&W Paperback (ISBN 978-1468125733) — #MM149-P — $16.95

PDF file on a DVD data disk by mail — #MM149-PDF — $4.99

26 photos
4 illustrations

Collection of 20 articles on various aspects of World War II in the Pacific Theater.

Contents

(1) The War in the Solomons: A Report
(2) Interrogation of Capt. Mitsuo Fuchida, IJN: The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Kamikaze Corps in the Philippines and at Okinawa
(3) Never a Battle Like Midway
(4) Cold Steel at Hot Rocks: The Battle for Iwo Jima
(5) The Battle of Cibik's Ridge: Bougainville, November 1943
(6) The 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal
(7) The Battle of Butterfly Ridge: Two Medals of Honor Awarded in Single Saipan Battle
(8) The Doolittle Raid: World War II's Greatest Gamble
(9) Soviet-Japanese Confrontation in Outer Mongolia: The Battle of Nomonhan - Khalkin Gol
(10) The Soviet-Japanese War of 1945
(11) The Frogmen of Eniwetok
(12) "There Are Only Dead Men on the Bridge...": Medal of Honor Recipient Lt. Comdr. Bruce McCandless
(13) O'Callahan of the Franklin
(14) The Aleuts: Flying PBYs with VP-61 in the Aleutians
(15) Interrogation of Capt. Kyuzo Tamura, IJN, and Comdr. Binzo Sugita, IJN: Allied Offensive Mining Campaign
(16) Fighter Combat Tactics in the Southwest Pacific Area
(17) The Jungle Slaughterhouse of Guadalcanal
(18) Okinawa: The Last Battleground
(19) Mask Lifted on Japan's Wartime Experiments
(20) U.S. 'Knew' Japan Used Yanks for Germ Warfare 'Experiments'