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Tanks in Hell : A Marine Corps Tank Company sur Tarawa-

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Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa
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by Cansiere, Romain; Gilbert, Oscar E. | PB | Good
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Binding
Paperback
Weight
1 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9781612006512
Publication Year
2018
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Tanks in Hell : a Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa
Author
Romain Cansiere, Oscar E. Gilbert
Item Length
9in
Publisher
Case Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / Weapons, Military / United States, Modern / General, Military
Item Width
6in
Number of Pages
264 Pages

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Winner of THE GENERAL WALLACE M. GREENE, JR. AWARD for outstanding nonfiction In 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.

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Publisher
Case Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
ISBN-10
1612006515
ISBN-13
9781612006512
eBay Product ID (ePID)
248595653

Product Key Features

Book Title
Tanks in Hell : a Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa
Author
Romain Cansiere, Oscar E. Gilbert
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / Weapons, Military / United States, Modern / General, Military
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
264 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
D767.917
Reviews
... unique study describes the battle of Tarawa as you've never seen it: from the tankers point of view..., The 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 tanker's 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., The Battle of Tarawa has been extensively studied, with many scholarly works covering the battle. Oscar Gilbert and Romain Cansiere have approached this topic by burrowing down to the company level examining in minute detail the activities of C Company, I Corps Tank Battalion (Medium), its individual M4A2 Sherman tanks, and the Marines who operated them Arguing that Marine tank operations have been understudied generally and that the tank contribution on Tarawa specifically has been relatively ignored, the authors present a holistic unit history...It is a very enjoyable read, the style is plain but energetic, and the battle scenes are very clear. As a battle study, the work is a great success, providing a detailed account of the company's successes and failures on Tarawa. As a unit history, the work provides an excellent mix of personal anecdote and organizational data... The book provides a personal, beachlevel view of the Marine island campaign that highlights the sacrifices made by Marines of all stripes while winning the war in the Pacific., ... 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.
Table of Content
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE Romain Cansiere PREFACE Ed Gilbert FOREWORD Edward L. Bale, Jr., Colonel, USMC (Ret) 1 A NEW DOCTRINE FOR A NEW WAR 2 SALAD DAYS--FORMATION AND TRAINING 3 THE TANKS OF CHARLIE COMPANY 4 THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS--CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT 5 OBJECTIVE: CODE NAME HELEN 6 DAY ONE--THE REEF 7 DAY ONE--INLAND 8 DAY TWO--SECURING THE BEACHHEAD 9 DAY THREE--SWEEPING THE ISLAND 10 DAY FOUR--THE FINAL CARNAGE 11 AFTERMATH EPILOGUE: The Legacy of Tarawa LATER LIFE APPENDIX A: Charlie Company Chronology APPENDIX B: Tank Company Organization and Equipment APPENDIX C: Inside the M4A2 Tank APPENDIX D: Charlie Company Personnel at Tarawa APPENDIX E: Historical Research and Photographic Analysis NOTES REFERENCES CITED
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
940.5426681
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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