To the Marianas: War in the Central Pacific, 1944
- ISBN-10
- 0442261055
- ISBN-13
- 9780442261054
- Category
- History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Van Nostrand Reinhold
- Author
- Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Description
Recounts U.S. amphibious operations in the central Pacific, on islands like Eniwetok, Kwajalein, and Saipan, and the friction between leaders of the Pacific fleet that further complicated the Allied attack on the Japanese defense perimeter.
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