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Although the history of armor in World War II has captured the attention of countless authors, no one has yet chronicled the extensive use of tanks in the Pacific, until now. In comprehensive detail Gene Eric Salecker describes the exploits of American tanks on the jungle islands where troops engaged in savage combat and encountered unforgiving weather and terrain. Stationed in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked the islands in 1941, the U.S. Army s independent tank battalions fought from the very start of the war. From New Guinea and the Solomons to the Ryukyus, American armor proved instrumental in winning World War II in the Pacific.
Gene Eric Salecker is the author of Fortress against the Sun: The B-17 Flying Fortress in the Pacific.
Baptism of Fire; War; War Plan Orange-3; Into Bataan; Bataan; The Points and Pockets; Siege and Suffering; Surrender; Reinforcements and Turnabout; Taking Makin; Closing the Solomons; Another Crack in the Outer Barrier; Isolating Rabaul; Leapfrogging the New Guinea Coast; Bloody Biak; Southern Saipan; The Valley of Death; Hard Days on Saipan; The End on Saipan; Guam; Stepping Stones; The Helmet's Wings; The Return; The Drive to Ormoc; Luzon; Manila; Corregidor and Southern Luzon; Northern Luzon; Clearing the Southern Philippines; Eastern Mindanao; Iceberg; Hard Days; The Last Battle; The End; Index.