Fighting for MacArthur
Title | Fighting for MacArthur PDF eBook |
Author | John Gordon |
Publisher | Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2011-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1612510620 |
“Fighting for MacArthur is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the Pacific War. Gordon makes extensive use of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps archives and interviews with veterans of the Philippine campaign. This is a well-written, engaging treatment of the steadily deteriorating position of the defenders in the Philippines.”—Michigan War Studies Review. For the first time the story of the Navy and Marine Corps in the 1941––42 Philippine campaign is told in a single volume. Drawing on a rich collection of both U.S. and recently discovered Japanese sources as well as official records and wartime diaries, Gordon chronicles the Americans’ desperate defense of the besieged islands. Gordon offers updated information about the campaign during which the Navy and Marines, fighting in what was largely an Army operation, performed some of their most unusual missions of the entire Pacific War. He also explains why the Navy's relationship with Gen. Douglas MacArthur became strained during this campaign, and remained so for the rest of the war. As a result of Gordon’s extensive primary source research, Fighting for MacArthur presents the most complete account of the dramatic efforts by elements of the Navy and Marine Corps to support the U.S. Army’s ill-fated defense of the Philippines.
Defending the Philippines
Title | Defending the Philippines PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 86 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Environmental justice |
ISBN | 9781911606406 |
Last Stand on Bataan
Title | Last Stand on Bataan PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher L. Kolakowski |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 219 |
Release | 2016-02-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0786474890 |
In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.S.-Filipino army fought desperately to defend Manila Bay and the Philippines against a Japanese invasion. Much of the five-month campaign was waged on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island. Despite dwindling supplies and dim prospects for support, the garrison held out as long as possible and significantly delayed the Japanese timetable for conquest in the Pacific. In the end, the Japanese forced the largest capitulation in U.S. military history. The defenders were hailed as heroes and the legacy of their determined resistance marks the Philippines today. Drawing on accounts from American and Filipino participants and archival sources, this book chronicles these critical months of the Pacific War, from the first air strikes to the fall of Bataan and Corregidor.
The Fall of the Philippines
Title | The Fall of the Philippines PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Morton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 664 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN |
Macarthur and Defeat in the Philippines
Title | Macarthur and Defeat in the Philippines PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Connaughton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 426 |
Release | 2001-09-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
"MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines is a study of Douglas MacArthur and the crisis of leadership, as well as a focused study of one of the pivotal moments in World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
The Decision to Withdraw to Bataan
Title | The Decision to Withdraw to Bataan PDF eBook |
Author | Louis G. Morton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 28 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN |
Triumph in the Philippines
Title | Triumph in the Philippines PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Ross Smith |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 784 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
The reconquest of the Philippine archipelago (exclusive of Leyte), with detailed accounts of Sixth Army and Eighth Army operations on Luzon, as well as of the Eighth Army's reoccupation of the southern Philippines.