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  • United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Victory in Papua

    [Illustrated Edition]

    by Samuel Milner ...
    Series series United States Army in WWII
    [Includes 23 maps and 95 illustrations]This is a companion volume to the one on Guadalcanal in the series on the war in the Pacific. Both record the operations designed to halt the advance of the enemy toward the vital transpacific line of communications with Australia and secure Australia as a base. Success in Papua and Guadalcanal, achieved in February 1943, put the Allied forces in a position ... Read more

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  • United States Army In WWII - The Pacific - Guadalcanal: The First Offensive

    [Illustrated Edition]

    by Samuel Milner ...
    Series series United States Army in WWII
    [Includes 3 charts, 36 maps and 107 illustrations]"The successes of the South Pacific Force," wrote Admiral Halsey in 1944, "were not the achievements of separate services or individuals but the result of whole-hearted subordination of self-interest by all in order that one successful 'fighting team' could be created." The history of any South Pacific campaign must deal with this "fighting team," ... Read more

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  • Victory in Papua

    by Samuel Milner ...
    The strategic significance of the Papuan Campaign can be briefly stated. In addition to blunting the Japanese thrust toward Australia and the transpacific line of communications, it put General MacArthur’s forces in a favorable position to take the offensive.But this little known campaign is significant for still another reason. It was the battle test of a large hitherto-inexperienced U. S. Army ... Read more

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    Victory in Papua

    by Samuel Milner ...
    Narrated by Joseph Kant ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 57 min

    By mid-1942 the Japanese forces were threatening to take the colonial capital of Port Moresby and therefore gain a base to launch their proposed invasion of Australia.The allied forces needed to blunt the Japanese thrust toward Australia and thus protect the transpacific line of communications, as well as to secure a favorable position to take the offensive to the Japanese.Yet this was easier ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Victory in Papua

    by Samuel Milner ...
    Narrated by Joseph Kant ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 35 min

    By mid-1942 the Japanese forces were threatening to take the colonial capital of Port Moresby and therefore gain a base to launch their proposed invasion of Australia.The allied forces needed to blunt the Japanese thrust toward Australia and thus protect the transpacific line of communications, as well as to secure a favorable position to take the offensive to the Japanese.Yet this was easier ... Read more

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    Okinawa

    The Last Battle

    Unabridged

    15 hours 42 min

    On 1 April, 1945, the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific Theater began.The battle for the island of Okinawa would last for the next eighty-two days.Through the course of this dramatic battle over 20,000 Americans would lose their lives and over 75,000 Japanese were killed in one of the bloodiest clashes of World War Two.Okinawa: The Last Battle is a remarkably detailed account of this ... Read more

    $29.99 USD