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In this gripping episode, we delve into the strategic objectives set for Bougainville during World War II. The mission was clear establish a vital beachhead and construct airstrips to enable American aircraft to neutralize Japanese airfields at Kahili, Buka, and Bonis. However, the Marines faced a daunting enemy force, with 21,800 Japanese troops stationed at Buin alone. Leading the defense was the formidable Lieutenant General Haruyoshi Hyakutake, a familiar foe to the Marines from their previous encounters at Guadalcanal. His main force, the 6th Division, posed a significant challenge to the...

With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps - the last all-white branch of the U.S. military - was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Dive into a poignant historical narrative that combines a comprehensive overview with personal accounts from those who experienced the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Published in 1992, this work is part of the U.S. Governments U.S. Marine Corps World War II Commemorative Series. - Summary by David Wales.

By early 1944, the United States Marine Corps had already made significant strides in their campaign to reclaim territories lost to Japanese forces during World War II. Following pivotal victories in the Southwest Pacific—beginning with Guadalcanal in August 1942 and continuing at Tarawa in November 1943—American forces were poised to take the next crucial step assaulting the islands held by Japan prior to 1941. These strategically important islands, mandated to the Japanese by the League of Nations after World War I, were shrouded in mystery and speculation. With outsiders barred and ...

The history of the tablets translated in the following book is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years. The writer is Thoth, an Atlantean Priest-King, who founded a colony in ancient Egypt after the sinking of the mother country. He was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, erroneously attributed to Cheops. In it he incorporated his knowledge of the ancient wisdom and also securely secreted records and instruments of ancient Atlantis.

The battle of Okinawa, a grueling three-month conflict spanning a 700-mile stretch from Formosa to Kyushu, involved over a million combatants, including Americans, Japanese, British, and native Okinawans. This monumental clash was not only the largest but also the most costly single operation of the Pacific War, rivaling the Normandy invasion that had occurred just months earlier. Throughout its 82 days of intense combat, the battle claimed an average of 3,000 lives daily—both from the fighting forces and tragic non-combatants. (Joseph H. Alexander)

Tarawa Atoll, located 2085 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and 540 miles southeast of Kwajalein in the Marshalls, is home to Betio, its principal island. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese swiftly captured Tarawa from the British within just three days. In August 1943, Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance traveled to New Zealand to meet in secrecy with Major General Julian C. Smith and his senior staff. During this pivotal meeting, Spruance instructed the Marines to prepare for an amphibious assault on Japanese positions in the Gilbert Islands come November. Lieutenant Colonel ...

On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the US Marines barracks in Beirut. Two hundred and forty-one Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack our nation would suffer until 9/11. We're still feeling the repercussions today. When Reagan Sent In the Marines tells why the Marines were there, how their mission became confused and compromised, and how President Ronald Reagan used another misguided military venture to distract America from the attack and his many mistakes leading up to it.

Joe Owen tells it like it was in this evocative story of a marine rifle company in the uncertain, early days of the Korean War. His powerful description of close combat in the snow-covered mountains of the Chosin Reservoir and of the survival spirit of his Marines provide a gritty real-life view of frontline warfare.As a lieutenant who was with them from first muster in California, Owen was in a unique position to see the hastily assembled mix of some 200 regulars and raw reservists harden into a superb Marine rifle company. The action and narrative move fast as the company learns to fight under enemy fire, eat frozen rations, and keep pushing forward when its wounded and dead go down.

On June 25, 1950, most Americans barely noticed the headlines about civil unrest in Korea, unaware that this distant peninsula would soon become the backdrop for one of the most significant military campaigns in U.S. history, marked by tremendous sacrifice in both lives and resources. The Marines of the 1st Brigade, renowned for their expertise in amphibious assaults, were called to demonstrate their adaptability in intense ground combat. Throughout the fierce battles within the Pusan Perimeter‚Aîadvancing south toward Sachon and engaging the enemy twice along the Naktong River‚Aîthese ...

La guerra di Erdogan: Erdogan lancia l'offensiva in Siria contro i curdi. Ma Trump dice no, di Marco Ansaldo; La minaccia di Erdogan, di Marco Ansaldo; Erdogan e i curdi in Siria: che cosa possiamo fare, di Michele Serra; Siria, centinaia di vittime. La grande fuga dei civili dalle bombe di Erdogan, di Marco Ansaldo; Ma l'arsenale di Erdogan è già completo, di Gianluca Di Feo.

Cronache dal Muro 7. E l'ascolto: Cronache del muro/7. Berlino, il crepuscolo del potere, di Ezio Mauro; Ascoltare è meglio che leggere, di Luigi Manconi.

Tienanmen, 30 anni fa: A Tienanmen con gli studenti che portarono la Cina nel futuro, di Ezio Mauro; Jeff Widener: "Devo tutto all'eroe di Tienanmen", di Anna Lombardi; "Diecimila morti": il rapporto segreto su Tienanmen, di Enrico Franceschini.

L'Iran, il Boeing abbattuto e la scommessa di Trump: Nella base degli italiani attaccata da Teheran: "La missione va avanti", di Fabio Tonacci; Satelliti, rottami e scatole nere: l'aereo ucraino e l'ipotesi missile, di Rosalba Castelletti; E per ora Donald vince la scommessa con gli ayatollah, di Federico Rampini; Dalle milizie ai missili, perché tra Iran e USA il conflitto non è finito; di Bernardo Valli; Crisi Stati Uniti-Iran, Teheran e il sogno della nuova Persia, di Gad Lerner.