WWII--PACIFIC--GILBERT ISLANDS COMBAT!--TARAWA & MAKIN!--1943--LONG OOP

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"STORM OVER THE GILBERTS--WAR IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC: 1943" is a 43 year-old long out-of-print reference on the U.S. campaign in the Gilbert Islands, specfically Tarawa and Makin. After Guadacanal in 1942, the Pacific war that had been moving toward Samoa and Australia turned north toward Japan and attention focused on the islands of the Gilberts and the Marshalls which had been held by the Japanese since WWI. Here is the entire, detailed story of the U.S. campaign to take the islands in the Gilbert chain--Tarawa, Makin and Jaluit. Chapter titles are: 1. Mistake at Makin,  2. The Coming of Spruance,  3. Engagement,  4. October Planning,  5. Prelude,  6. Invasion,  7. The First Day,  8. The Second Day,  9. Thrusts and Counterthrusts at Sea,  10. The Third Day,  11. Banzai,  12. Tarawa Victory,  13. The LISCOME BAY,  14. The Storm Over The Gilberts.
Book is HARDBACK with DUSTJACKET published in 1978. It is in EXCELLENT CONDITION, measures 5 7/8" x 8 1/2", and contains 162 pages with 8 pages of photographs.
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