The amphibians came to conquer : the story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dyer, George C. (George Carroll), 1898-1987 (Author)
Corporate Author:	United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Washington] : [for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], [U.S. Dept. of the Navy] ; [1972]
Subjects:	Turner, Richmond Kelly, > 1885-1961. Turner, Richmond Kelly, > 1885-1961 World War, 1939-1945 > Pacific Ocean. World War, 1939-1945 > Amphibious operations. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Pacifique, Océan. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Opérations amphibies. Military operations, Amphibious Pacific Ocean 1939-1945 collective biographies. Biographies Biographies.

Table of Contents:

volume I: The first thirty years of "Kelly", 1885-1815
Ten years of big ship gunnery, 1916-1926
Early years of a decade of service in the Naval Aeronautical Organization, 1927-1932
In and out of big time naval aviation, 1932-1940
Planning for war with Germany or Japan, or both, 1940-1941
1941 Naval organization, doctrine and landing craft developments for amphibious war
WATCHTOWER: one for Ernie King
CACTUS bound
Success, then cliff hanging
SAVO: the galling defeat
Logistics, the heart of six months battle, August 1932- February 1943
HUDDLE slowly scuttled
Polishing skills in the Russells
Planning for paring the Japanese toenails in New Georgia
Tough toenails paring: 30 June 1943 to 15 July 1943
v. II: To the central Pacific and Tarawa
The pushover: Makin
That real toughie: Tarawa
At long last "The perfect one," the Marshalls
Roi, Namur, and the frosting on the cake, Eniwetok
The nut cracker: Saipan, Tinian, Guam
Iwo Jima: death at its best
Okinawa and four stars
End of the war and United Nations Organization duty
The last long mile
Appendix A. USS Richmond K. Turner
Appendix B.A note on primary sources
Appendix C. The last word.