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The long road of war : a marine's story of Pacific combat

著者: James W Johnston
出版商: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©1998.
版本/格式:   图书 : 传记 : 州政府或者省政府刊物 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
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James W. Johnston was a self-confessed small-town youth, who like so many others patriotically stopped what he was doing and enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor. Johnston chose the Marines, a decision that sent him to years of bloody combat through the Pacific, as Allied troops fought their way toward the Japanese home islands.
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类型/形式: Personal narratives, American
Biography
附加的形体格式: Online version:
Johnston, James W., 1922-
Long road of war.
Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c1998
(OCoLC)624759651
提及的人: James W Johnston
材料类型: 传记, 政府刊物, 州政府或者省政府刊物
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所有的著者/提供者: James W Johnston
ISBN: 0803225857 9780803225855
OCLC号码: 37260896
描述: xx, 174 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
责任: James W. Johnston.
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James W. Johnston was a self-confessed small-town youth, who like so many others patriotically stopped what he was doing and enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor. Johnston chose the Marines, a decision that sent him to years of bloody combat through the Pacific, as Allied troops fought their way toward the Japanese home islands.

Johnston was a line company machine gunner, one of those who do the dirty work of war, who fight "in the face of the enemy." Many did not come back; of those who did, very few have told us what it was like. Johnston tells us directly and honestly, taking us with his First Marine Division through New Guinea, New Britain, Peleliu, and Okinawa.

Johnston is still angry. At the stupidities of some military regulations, at the incompetence of some officers, at the people who weren't there but are sure they know all about it, at the rear-echelon troops who had plenty of everything yet bellyached about their tough times, at medals and promotions awarded for luck, showboating, and favoritism, while nearby brave and good men struggled and bled and died, unnoticed and unheralded.

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