Devil Dogs
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Devil Dogs

King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan

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eBook - ePub

Devil Dogs

King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan

About this book

Award-winning historian Saul David reveals the searing experience of the DevilDogs of World War II and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne. The "Devil Dogs"of King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines—part of the legendary 1stMarine Division—were among the first American soldiers to take the offensiveinWorld World II—and also the last. They landed on the beaches ofGuadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August 1942—thefirst US groundoffensive of the war—and were present when Okinawa, Japan's mostsoutherlyprefecture, finally fell to American troops after a bitter struggle in June1945. Inbetween they fought in the "Green Hell" of Cape Gloucester on theisland of New Britain, andacross the coral wasteland of Peleliu in the PalauIslands, a campaign described by oneKing Company veteran as "thirty days ofthe meanest, around-the-clock slaughter thatdesperate men can inflict on eachother." Ordinary men from very differentbackgrounds, and drawn from cities, towns, and settlementsacross America, the Devil Dogs were asked to do something extraordinary: take onthevictorious Imperial Japanese Army, composed of some of the most effective, "utterlyruthless and treacherous"soldiers in world history—and defeat it. Thisis the story of how theydid just that and, in the process, forged bonds ofbrotherhood that still survive today. Remarkably, the company contained anunusually high number of talented writers, whose first-hand accounts and memoirs providethe color, emotion, and context for this extraordinary story. In Devil Dogs, award-winninghistorianSaul David sets the searing experience of theDevil Dogs into the broadercontext of the brutal war in the Pacific and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781639362004
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Illustrations
  5. Maps
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: ‘I Would’ve Followed Him Anywhere’
  9. Chapter 2: ‘Where I’m Going Will Either Make or Break Me’
  10. Chapter 3: ‘Will I Run? Will I Be Afraid?’
  11. Chapter 4: ‘You Think We’ll Ever Get Off This Damned Island?’
  12. Chapter 5: The Goettge Patrol
  13. Chapter 6: ‘Boy, They Were a Sight for Sore Eyes!’
  14. Chapter 7: ‘A Pesthole That Reeked of Death, Struggle and Disease’
  15. Chapter 8: ‘Thirty Hours of Pure Hell’
  16. Chapter 9: ‘It Was Just a Crazy Thing To Do’
  17. Chapter 10: ‘We’ve Got the Bastards Licked!’
  18. Chapter 11: ‘Saviours of Australia’
  19. Chapter 12: ‘The Trick Is to Run Just Fast Enough’
  20. Chapter 13: New Arrivals
  21. Chapter 14: Planning for Action
  22. Chapter 15: Green Hell
  23. Chapter 16: Suicide Creek
  24. Chapter 17: ‘So Long, Dutch’
  25. Chapter 18: Walt’s Ridge
  26. Chapter 19: Seek and Destroy
  27. Chapter 20: Operation Appease
  28. Chapter 21: ‘The Sickness, the Rain, the Spider’
  29. Chapter 22: ‘Whose Bright Idea Was This Anyway?’
  30. Chapter 23: Changing Places
  31. Chapter 24: Operation Stalemate
  32. Chapter 25: Sledgehammer
  33. Chapter 26: ‘They Really Put On a Show’
  34. Chapter 27: ‘This Is Going to Be a Short One, a Quickie’
  35. Chapter 28: ‘This Is It, Boys!’
  36. Chapter 29: ‘Move It! Move It!’
  37. Chapter 30: ‘They’re Nip Tanks!’
  38. Chapter 31: ‘Everywhere Shells Flashed Like Giant Firecrackers’
  39. Chapter 32: ‘I Never Saw Such Agonized Expressions’
  40. Chapter 33: ‘I’m Hit! Christ, I’m Hit!’
  41. Chapter 34: ‘Put the Man Out of His Misery!’
  42. Chapter 35: ‘Shit, They’re Behind Us!’
  43. Chapter 36: Hillbilly and Ack-Ack
  44. Chapter 37: The Lucky Few
  45. Chapter 38: ‘We Were Worn Down and Sobered’
  46. Chapter 39: Where Next?
  47. Chapter 40: ‘The Road to Certain Victory’
  48. Chapter 41: ‘In Some Ways It Was Bigger Than D-Day’
  49. Chapter 42: Love Day
  50. Chapter 43: ‘We Were Euphoric, Undisciplined, and Stupid’
  51. Chapter 44: ‘I Burned the Whole Village to the Ground’
  52. Chapter 45: ‘Hit the Deck and Dig In!’
  53. Chapter 46: ‘We Gotta Get the Hell Outta Here’
  54. Chapter 47: ‘Hell’s Own Cesspool’
  55. Chapter 48: ‘Wild-eyed Expressions of Shock and Fear’
  56. Chapter 49: The Final Stretch
  57. Chapter 50: End Game
  58. Chapter 51: ‘We Sure Have a Lot to Be Thankful for’
  59. Postscript: ‘We’d Forged a Bond That Time Would Never Erase’
  60. Photographs
  61. Acknowledgments
  62. About the Author
  63. Notes
  64. Bibliography
  65. Index
  66. Copyright