George Lince

Too Young the Heroes

A World War II Marine's Account of Facing a Veteran Enemy at Guadalcanal, the Solomons and Okinawa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Right after Pearl Harbor, the author joined the Marines at 17. After boot camp, he went to the First Marine Division, taking part in some of the bloodiest fighting in the Pacific, including the landing on Okinawa where he was wounded. Fighting under terrible conditions, he and his fellow Marines persevered. This is the author's story of combat and of growing up.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780786476077
• ISBN-10: 0786476079
• Artikelnr.: 37149847

Autorenporträt

The late George Lince lived in New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction 1 1
THE BEGINNING 3 2
THE MAKING OF A MARINE 12 3
ON TO THE MARINE INFANTRY 29 4
PELELIU TO PAVUVU 35 5
GUADALCANAL 54 6
LOOKING BACK AT TENARU RIVER 63 7
BACK TO PAVUVU 69 8
EN ROUTE TO OKINAWA 75 9
OKINAWA: THE FIRST FOUR DAYS 81 10
THE SWING NORTH 92 11
SOUTHERN BATTLES 107 12
AWAY FROM THE FRONT LINES, AND BACK AGAIN 131 13
OKINAWA: THE LAST DAYS 142 14
HOSPITAL TIME, AND THE END OF THE WAR 150 15
GOING HOME 160 16
OKINAWA PLUS FIFTY 167 APPENDIX A. A Marine Corps History of the First Marine Division on the Palau Islands and Okinawa, September 1944-May 1945 181 APPENDIX B. Deaths During World War II Service Among Students of Rome Free Academy and Saint Aloysius Academy in Rome, New York 188 Notes 193 Military History of George Lince 195 Index 197