G.I. series # 6 - THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC : From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa, 1941 - 1945 by Gawne, Jonathan

London 1996, Greenhill, paper edition Fine condition, 7x10, 80 pages, glossy pages stock, 123 photos incl a number of original color. With 123 photographs and in-depth captions, Jonathan Gawne gives a comprehensive picture of the U.S. Army at war in the Pacific. Twenty-two U.S. Army Divisions - including one cavalry and one airborne - saw combat in the Pacific Theatre (compared with only six divisions of Marines). The fighting ranged from the cold Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska, down the California coast and across the South Pacific Ocean to Australia. In the Southwest Pacific the fighting took place in thick, steamy jungles and on tall mountains. Further west men fought in China and Burma, where the mountains marked the start of the Himalayas. Jonathan Gawne examines the development of army uniforms, equipment, vehicles and even food, which each had to be adapted in order to meet the special demands of war in all manner of terrain and climate.