Download Victory Fever on Guadalcanal: Japan's First Land Defeat of World War II AudioBook Free
Pursuing their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, going to cut off the critical American source collection to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Us citizens captured the almost completed airfield for their own proper use. JAPAN Military countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the control of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki. The strike that implemented would end up being the first of four tries by japan over half a year to retake the airfield, leading to some of the most vicious fighting with each other of the Pacific War. During the preliminary battle on the night time of August 20-21, 1942, Marines wiped out Ichiki's men, who - imbued with "victory fever" - possessed expected an instant and easy victory. William H. Bartsch attracts on correspondence, interviews, diaries, memoirs, and formal war records, including those translated from Japanese sources, to provide an intensely human narrative of the failed attempt to recapture Guadalcanal's essential airfield. The publication is posted by Texas A&M School Press.
