U.S. Army Divisions of the Pacific War by Stephen R. Taaffe (.ePUB)
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U.S. Army Divisions of the Pacific War by Stephen R. Taaffe
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Overview: A new narrative and analytic history of the twenty U.S. Army divisions that fought in the Pacific War.
Despite the prevailing view that the Marine Corps bore the brunt of the fighting in the Pacific War, the men of the US Army played a decisive role in the conflict. Indeed, GIs did most of the war’s heavy lifting on the ground by conducting more amphibious assaults and prosecuting more operations than the Marines. By the end of the war there were 1.77 million U.S. Army troops in the Pacific and Asia, compared to the USMC’s 484,000. The Pacific was as much the Army’s war as the fighting in the European theater. The U.S. Army deployed twenty combat divisions to fight in the Pacific, including famous ones such as the 1st Cavalry Division and the 25th “Tropic Lightning” Division. Most were infantry, and included Regular, National Guard and draftee divisions.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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