Название: Marines on the Marianas: a Pictorial Record. Volume 2 Tinian and Guam
Автор: Eric Hammel
Издательство: US Marine Corps
Страниц: 47
Формат: PDF
Размер: 29 мб
Качество: хорошее
Язык: Английский
Год: 2012
By early 1944, the American's westward drive across the Pacific required airfields in the Marshall Islands, at Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls. In late January, the 4th Marine Division and U.S. Army troops wrenched control of Kwajalein Atoll in three days of heavy fighting. Then, beginning February 18, the reinforced independent 22d Marine Regiment landed on three islands in Eniwetok Atoll. The three newly rebuilt former Japanese airfields at Kwajalein and Eniwetok would support operations in the Mariana Islands as the Marine Corps continued its island-hopping campaign to victory in the Pacific.
