"In the summer of 1942, while leaders in Washington discussed Pacific War strategy, word arrived that the Japanese had begun construction of an airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal. Fearing establishment of the base might presage a thrust southeastward that would sever the line of communica...

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1. Verfasser:	Whyte, William Hollingsworth 1917-1999 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Fordham Univ. Press 2000
Schlagworte:	Whyte, William H - (William Hollingsworth) Whyte, William Hollingsworth United States. > Marine Corps > Biography Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 > Personal narratives, American Marines > United States > Biography Schlacht um Guadalcanal USA Biografie Erlebnisbericht
Zusammenfassung:	"In the summer of 1942, while leaders in Washington discussed Pacific War strategy, word arrived that the Japanese had begun construction of an airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal. Fearing establishment of the base might presage a thrust southeastward that would sever the line of communications between the United States and Australia, the Joint Chiefs of Staff authorized Operation Watchtower, the seizure of Guadalcanal and Tulagi by the First Marine Division." "On the last day of July 1942, when the First Division set sail, Whyte had only an inkling of what was in store for the Marines when they landed on the north coast of Guadalcanal seven days later. Planning for the campaign had been rudimentary at best. When the First Marines splashed ashore without opposition from the Japanese, they thought it would be easy to seize their first objective, Mount Austen They soon learned the inadequacy of their maps when that objective proved to be several miles inland through eight-foot-tall kunai grass that trapped the heat and made even walking difficult." "What quickly developed was the first real test of land combat between the United States and Japan. As an intelligence officer with the Third Battalion of the First Marines, Whyte was in a position to describe the American Strategy and also to assess the key Japanese leaders opposing the American advance."
Beschreibung:	XXX, 145, [14] S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	0823220079 0823220087