Book : Tanks In Hell A Marine Corps Tank Company On Tarawa

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Winner of THE GENERAL WALLACE M. GREENE, JR. AWARD for outstanding nonfictionIn May 1943 a self-described “really young, green, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a new Marine Corps company. His even younger enlisted Marines were learning to use an untested weapon, the M4A2 “Sherman” medium tank. His sole combat veteran was the company bugler, who had salvaged his dress cap and battered horn from a sinking aircraft carrier. Just six months later the company would be thrown into one of the ghastliest battles of World War II.On 20 November 1943 the Second Marine Division launched the first amphibious assault of the Pacific War, directly into the teeth of powerful Japanese defenses on Tarawa. In that blood-soaked invasion, a single company of Sherman tanks, of which only two survived, played a pivotal role in turning the tide from looming disaster to legendary victory. In this unique study Oscar Gilbert and Romain Cansiere use official documents, memoirs, interviews with veterans, as well as personal and aerial photographs to follow Charlie Company from its formation, and trace the movement, action-and loss-of individual tanks in this horrific four-day struggle. The authors have used official documents and interviews with veterans to follow the company from training through the brutal 76-hour struggle for Tarawa. Survivor accounts and air photo analysis document the movements -and destruction - of the company’s individual tanks. It is a story of escapes from drowning tanks, and even more harrowing escapes from tanks knocked out behind Japanese lines. It is a story of men doing whatever needed to be done, from burying the dead to hand-carrying heavy cannon ammunition forward under fire. It is the story of how the two surviving tanks and their crews expanded a perilously thin beachhead, and cleared the way for critical reinforcements to come ashore. But most of all it is a story of how a few unsung Marines helped turn near disaster into epic victory.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTSPREFACE Romain CansierePREFACE Ed GilbertFOREWORD Edward L. Bale, Jr., Colonel, USMC (Ret)1 A NEW DOCTRINE FOR A NEW WAR2 SALAD DAYS-FORMATION AND TRAINING3 THE TANKS OF CHARLIE COMPANY4 THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS-CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT5 OBJECTIVE: CODE NAME HELEN6 DAY ONE-THE REEF7 DAY ONE-INLAND8 DAY TWO-SECURING THE BEACHHEAD9 DAY THREE-SWEEPING THE ISLAND10 DAY FOUR-THE FINAL CARNAGE11 AFTERMATHEPILOGUE: The Legacy of TarawaLATER LIFEAPPENDIX A: Charlie Company ChronologyAPPENDIX B: Tank Company Organization and EquipmentAPPENDIX C: Inside the M4A2 TankAPPENDIX D: Charlie Company Personnel at TarawaAPPENDIX E: Historical Research and Photographic AnalysisNOTESREFERENCES CITED Review ... unique study describes the battle of Tarawa as youve never seen it: from the tankers point of view...Tanks on TarawaThe book is heavily laden with quotes, memories and stories of the men of Charlie Company. This book brought tears to my eyes in some instances where the authors and Marines remember their actions in one of the most fiercely fought battles of the Pacific. The first person accounts along with the historical narrative both flow together well to provide a gripping account of the battle for Tarawa from a tankers point of view. This book adds a much-needed perspective on the Marine Corps operations on Tarawa. Get it and read it. Highly Recommended, especially for those interested in the Pacific Theater and armor operations in World War II.Armor Modeling and Preservation Society... trusts veterans of the battle to recall their own experiences - and gives them plenty of space to do so - while the historians do the work of tracing the individual paths of specific tanks and fitting them into a cohesive narrative of Pacific tank combat. Helpfully, each tank had a name, making them easier to follow.War Is BoringThe Battle of Tarawa has been extensively studied, with many scholarly works covering the battle. Oscar Gil
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