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Flamethrower : Iwo Jima Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and his controversial award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War Cover Image Book

Flamethrower : Iwo Jima Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and his controversial award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War

Iwo Jima Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and his controversial award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War (portion title)
Rigg, Bryan Mark 1971- (author.). Gray, Alfred M. (writer of foreword.). Krulak, Charles C. (writer of foreword.). Williams, Hershel Woodrow 1923-2022 (honoree.). Zinni, Anthony C. (writer of foreword.).

Summary: "Imagine strapping on a highly flammable 70-pound pack and entering combat as a surefire walking target - and you'd only begin to understand the job, and the horror, of [a] Marine Corps flamethrower man. That's precisely what Hershel "Woody" Williams did in World War II, most importantly in February 1945 on Iwo Jima, one of the Pacific War's toughest battles. A few days into the battle, Marines were fighting hard for an airfield, and his captain asked Woody if he could do anything. He responded, "I'll try"--And for the next four hours, he virtually singlehandedly took on and ultimately destroyed seven enemy pillboxes and helped secure the airfield. Accomplished military historian Bryan Mark Rigg reconstructs Williams' remarkable story, from his youth in West Virginia to his experiences on Guadalcanal, Saipan, Guam, and most significantly Iwo Jima. In Rigg's telling, Williams' Medal of Honor action is not "just" a brave deed, but one of only a few strategically significant brave deeds - one that secured a strategic objective during a major campaign. Rigg tells Williams' story vividly, and objectively, and places it in the context of the broader Pacific theater of World War II."--

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  • ISBN: 1734534109
  • ISBN: 9781734534108
  • Physical Description: print
    lvii, 973 pages, 56 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Addison, TX : Fidelis Historia, LLC, [2020]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 825-942) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Forewords / by 31st USMC Commandant, General Charles C. Krulak, 29th USMC Commandant, General Alfred M. Gray Jr. and USMC General Anthony Charles Zinni -- Introduction: background on WWII and Woody Williams -- A nation rises up-events before and at the beginning of war -- Growing up in West Virginia -- Outbreak of war -- Joining the Marine Corps -- Background on the Japanese military: brave soldiers and psychopathic rapists and killers -- Deployment-New Caledonia -- Guadalcanal -- Marianas -- Japanese attack and occupation of Guam 1941-44 -- Battle for the Marianas: background and preparation -- Amphibious warfare: the Marine Corps' forte -- Attack at Saipan -- Philippine Sea Battle: "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" -- Attack at Saipan continues -- Attack at Tinian -- Liberation of Guam -- "Banzai" attacks on Guam -- Battle's end for Guam -- Events leading to Iwo Jima -- Iwo Jima landings begin -- Woody's landing on Iwo -- Pillboxes -- Attack on Iwo continues -- Battle on Iwo winds down -- Justification for Iwo Jima -- After Iwo Jima -- Receiving the Medal of Honor -- Observations about military awards and Woody's MOH -- Life after the war -- Appendix #1 (legal document of Rigg's motion to dismiss Woody's frivolous lawsuit).

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Williams, Hershel Woodrow 1923-2022
United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 21st. C Battery.
United States. Marine Corps Biography
United States. Marine Corps History World War, 1939-1945
Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945
Medal of Honor Biography
World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area
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