Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781935149217
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2010
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 16 pages of b/w photographs
Description:
The images of soldiers and marines coming ashore on hostile beaches are embedded in our collective memory of World War II. But what of the sailors who manned the landing craft, going back and forth under fire with nowhere to take cover?In this book, Ken Wiley, a coast guardsman on an attack-transport ship in the Pacific, relates the extraordinary story of how the United States projected its power across 6,000 miles of ocean, despite fierce Japanese resistance.