Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific

No previous book has been devoted to Marine Corps armor in World War II. Gilbert's gripping narrative combines exhaustive detail on Marine armor and combat with moving eyewitness accounts, never before published, of what it was actually like to be a Marine tanker in action in the Pacific.

Oscar E. Gilbert, Ph. D., is a former Marine artilleryman and currently a geoscientist living in Texas. He is the National Information Coordinator for the Armor Modeling and Preservation Society.

Acknowledgements

6

(8)

Preface

8

(3)

Prologue

11

(3)

Novices at War: Birth of the Tank Corps and the Coming of War

14

(19)

Blood on the Tracks: Guadalcanal and the Southern Solomons

33

(19)

A Job for the Army: The New Georgia Campaign

52

(18)

The defensive Offensive: Bougainville

70

(6)

Drowning on the Reef: Tarawa

76

(29)

Swamp Tanks: Cape Gloucester

105

(17)

The Last Charge: Roi-Namur and the Marshall Islands

122

(17)

The Bloodiest Battle You Never Heard Of: Saipan

139

(29)

``The Most Perfect Amphibious Operation'': Tinian

168

(13)

A Point of Honor: Guam

181

(24)

In the Gory Oven: Peleliu

205

(24)

Hell Boils Over: Iwo Jima

229

(47)

Processing the Enemy: Okinawa

276

(44)

Anticlimax: The Collapse of Japan and Occupation

320

(4)

Epilogue

324

(2)

Interview Sources

326

(4)

Notes and Sources

330

(13)

Selected References

343

(6)

Index

349

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Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific

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