U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle: Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939-1945

by Gordon Rottman

Overview

Including extensive information only found in scattered sources or official documents and archives, this book provides detailed coverage of all organizational aspects of the Marine Corps units in World War II's Pacific Theater. It gives in-depth background information on the units' functions, evolution, designation practices, tactical organization of combat units, and extensive statistical and technical data including 21 maps. It covers atypical subjects such as Marines in China, and female and African American marines. Extensive additional data on weapons, U.S. Navy and Army backgrounds, Japanese Army and Navy backgrounds, code names, and comparative ranks of U.S. forces appear in the appendices. The book is a valuable one-stop resource for researchers, historians, military history enthusiasts, and war gamers.

As a complete reference source on the Marine Corps, the book provides an evolutionary study of the Marine Corps' wartime expansion and organization. It closely examines the prewar and wartime growth of the Marine Corps as well as its postwar reduction while providing complete background information on all ground and air units in the Pacific and their evolution. Information on each Marine Corps unit includes: dates in combat, location and code name of landing beaches, time of landing, island operation code names, date the island was declared secure, task organization for combat order of battle of the opposing Japanese units and their casualties, attached U.S. Army and U.S. Navy units, and much more. The book is the definitive source of organizational information.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313319068
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/30/2001
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.31(d)

About the Author

GORDON L. ROTTMAN has served 26 years in the U.S. Army in Special Forces, airborne infantry, long-range reconnaissance patrol, and military intelligence assignments with the Regular Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve./e He began writing military history books in 1984. He is employed by TRW System and Information Technology Group as a special operations forces scenario writer at the Army's Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Benis M. Frank
Preface
U.S. Marine Corps Organizational Profile
U.S. Marine Corps Shore Establishment
Fleet Marine Force
Amphibious Corps and Forces: Marine Divisions, Brigades, and Tactical Groups
Fleet Marine Force Ground Units
Fleet Marine Force Ground Unit Operations
Marine Corps Aviation Profile
Marine Corps Aviation Units
Fleet Marine Force Aviation Unit Campaign Participation
Appendices
Selected Bibliography
Index