Coast Watching in World War II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coast Watching in World War II write by A. B. Feuer. This book was released on 2006. Coast Watching in World War II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vivid firsthand accounts of a secret organization whose existence was denied during the war. Maps pinpoint coast-watching locations.
The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific
The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific write by Eric A. Feldt. This book was released on 2019-08-17. The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Coastwatchers is the fascinating story of the unsung heroic civilian spotters of World War 2 who roamed the coastlines of their home islands and reported back enemy sightings to Allied Intelligence. Author Eric Feldt led Operation Ferdinand, part of the build-up to the Normandy landings, in which the Coastwatchers, by this time on the US Navy's payroll, played a critical role. His intimate knowledge of Ferdinand, and his familiarity with the Coastwatchers of the Pacific islands, provides a unique perspective on this little known but important chapter of military history.
The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific
The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific write by Eric A. Feldt. This book was released on 2019-08-17. The Coastwatchers: Operation Ferdinand and the Fight for the South Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Coastwatchers is the fascinating story of the unsung heroic civilian spotters of World War 2 who roamed the coastlines of their home islands and reported back enemy sightings to Allied Intelligence. Author Eric Feldt led Operation Ferdinand, part of the build-up to the Normandy landings, in which the Coastwatchers, by this time on the US Navy's payroll, played a critical role. His intimate knowledge of Ferdinand, and his familiarity with the Coastwatchers of the Pacific islands, provides a unique perspective on this little known but important chapter of military history.
Alone on Guadalcanal
Alone on Guadalcanal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alone on Guadalcanal write by Alexandra C. Clemens. This book was released on 2013-01-15. Alone on Guadalcanal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive. Scottish-born and Cambridge-educated, Martin Clemens managed to survive months behind Japanese lines in one of the most unfriendly climates and terrains in the world. After countless partisan and spy missions, in 1942 he emerged from the jungle and integrated his Melanesian commando force into the heart of the 1st Marine Division's operations, earning the unfettered admiration of such legendary Marine officers as Vandegrift, Thomas, Twining, Edson, and Pate. This book is based on a journal Clemens kept during the war and might well be the last critical source of analysis of the Solomon's campaign. His eyewitness accounts of harrowing long-distance patrols and life on the run from shadowy Japanese intelligence operatives and treacherous islanders are unmatched in the literature of the Pacific war. First published in 1998, the story, with an introduction by Allan R. Millett, is essential and enjoyable reading.
Coast Watching in the Solomon Islands
Coast Watching in the Solomon Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coast Watching in the Solomon Islands write by A. B. Feuer. This book was released on 1992-05-21. Coast Watching in the Solomon Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Bougainville Reports--by Jack Read, Paul Mason, and other coast watchers--are vivid accounts of the coast watching activities on Buka and Bougainville Islands in the Solomon Islands chain during World War II and describe in detail one of the most successful intelligence operations of the war. By the time war came to the South Pacific on December 8, 1941, an excellent intra-district communication network had already been established on Bougainville. A daily system of radio reporting was put into effect by Lieutenant Commander Eric Feldt, who later wrote: Few realized that when the first waves of United States Marines landed on the bitterly contested beaches of Guadalcanal, coast watchers on Bougainville, New Georgia, and other islands were sending warning signals of impending Japanese air raids almost two hours before enemy aircraft formations appeared over the island. Japanese shipping and aircraft activity was monitored and news of spottings was telegraphed to Guadalcanal Headquarters. Information on shipping was directly responsible for the American victory in November 1942, when 12 Japanese transports, loaded with reinforcements, were intercepted and destroyed. Jack Read summarized his activities as follows: Reviewing the course of our operations, we can see that coast watching on that most northerly peg of the Solomons had fulfilled its mission long before we were driven out--and to a far greater effect than even we realized. During the early and uncertain days of the American struggle to wrest Guadalcanal from the Japanese, the reports and timely warnings from Bougainville were directly responsible for the enemy's defeat. Admiral William Halsey praised the work of the coast watchers and said that the intelligence information from Bougainville saved Guadalcanal and that Guadalcanal saved the South Pacific. These edited reports tell the remarkable story of Read, Mason, and other coast watchers and depict their struggles for survival in the Japanese-patrolled jungles of Bougainville. They provide a fascinating account that will intrigue historians, World War II and espionage buffs, and students.
