Battle of Tarawa: Pyrrhic Victory for the American Army
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Battle of Tarawa: Pyrrhic Victory for the American Army
19.99 €
“Japanese machine guns have harvested a rich harvest. The slaughter was terrible! The water in front of our site was littered with floating bodies of the dead and wounded. No one who saw the blood bath of the 8th Marine Regiment will forget it..." - so the American Marine, a participant in Operation Galvanic, recalled landing on the well-fortified Tarawa Atoll by the Japanese. This battle was not just a Pyrrhic victory. The U.S. Marine Corps is a symbol of the bloodshed of World War II for Americans, as losses on a small coral island in the central Pacific truly shocked the United States (with Marines on Tarawa for 80 years remains the only documentary footage of killed American soldiers).
However, it was this brutal battle, which lasted from 20 to 23 November 1943, where only two tanks survived from the Sherman Company, that allowed the Americans to gain invaluable combat experience, thanks to which they managed to quickly capture the Marshall Islands and Mariana Islands, and then strike at the heart of the Japanese Empire, raising the star-striped flag over Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
The new book of the famous military historian for the first time in Russian literature tells in detail about one of the fiercest battles between American and Japanese troops in the Pacific theater of operations of World War II.
The publication is illustrated with many rare photos.
However, it was this brutal battle, which lasted from 20 to 23 November 1943, where only two tanks survived from the Sherman Company, that allowed the Americans to gain invaluable combat experience, thanks to which they managed to quickly capture the Marshall Islands and Mariana Islands, and then strike at the heart of the Japanese Empire, raising the star-striped flag over Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
The new book of the famous military historian for the first time in Russian literature tells in detail about one of the fiercest battles between American and Japanese troops in the Pacific theater of operations of World War II.
The publication is illustrated with many rare photos.
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