Into the Rising Sun World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat

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In the voices of the soldiers themselves, the thrilling story of the elite troops of WWII in the Pacific .

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Introduction	p. 1
Overview: The Elite Infantry of the Pacific	p. 9
Operation Shoestring	p. 17
Starvation Island: Guadalcanal	p. 37
Up the Solomons: Strangling Rabaul	p. 63
Burma: Merrill's Marauders	p. 89
New Guinea	p. 119
Into the Marianas	p. 133
Leyte: The Return to the Philippines	p. 149
Luzon	p. 175
Clearing the Philippines: Corregidor, Luzon, and Negros	p. 193
Into the Jaws of Hell: Iwo Jima	p. 221
The Last Battle: Okinawa	p. 257
Home	p. 283
Appendix	p. 293
Notes	p. 295
Acknowledgments	p. 305
Index	p. 308
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