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  title info:
    title: Commanding the Pacific
    sub title: Marine Corps generals in World War II
  name:
    name part: Taaffe, Stephen R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 232 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The Marine Corps covered itself in glory in World War Two with victories over the Japanese at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and elsewhere. Despite its success, the Corps' high-ranking combat commanders remain virtually unknown to both historians and the general public. Stephen R. Taaffe explains that marine division and corps chiefs played a vital role in organizing, training and leading their units in the American counteroffensive across the Pacific. Marine combat generals had to overcome both bureaucratic obstacles and enemy opposition to fulfill their amphibious missions.
  table of contents: Semper Fi: An Anomalous Organization in Search of a Mission -- Waging War in the Most Remote Place on Earth: The Pacific Theater -- Central Pacific Offensive -- Closing in on Japan -- Conclusion, Gaining and Losing Combat Command.
  note: Stephen R. Taaffe.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: p------
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Marine Corps
    topic: History
    temporal: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Marine Corps
    topic: Officers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Command of troops
  subject:
    topic: Generals
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Leadership
  classification: D769.369 .T33 2021
  classification: 940.54/59730922
  identifier: 9781682477083
  identifier: 1682477088
  identifier: 9781682477090
  identifier: 2021012742
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210322
    record change date: 20211109160003.0
    record identifier: in00004371842