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D-Day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan (Twentieth-Century Battles)
DDay in the Pacific The Battle of Saipan - Twentieth-Century Battles
Author: Harold J. Goldberg
In June 1944 the attention of the nation was riveted on events unfolding in France. But in the Pacific, the Battle of Saipan was of extreme strategic importance. This is a gripping account of one of the most dramatic engagements of World War II. The conquest of Saipan and the neighboring island of Tinian was a turning point in the war in the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780253348692
ISBN-10: 0253348692
Pages: 276
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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Outstanding analysis of the battle of Saipan. The authors covers BOTH the Marines and U.S. Army units that fought this major action. His rendering of the fanatical Japanese assault against two U.S. Army battalions that were decimated and the heroics of the GIs that stood and fought until they were overcome by numbers would make a truly great movie.


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