THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN - U.S. Army in World War II - PICTORIAL RECORD by Center of Military History

Washington 1988, GPO, reprint of 1952 edition, hard bound in green cloth. 7 x 10, VG condition, ( several light wear spots on cover ), ix, 473 pages, hundreds of photos, index. In the narrative volumes of the United States Army in World War II series, it is possible to include only a limited number of the thousands of pictures taken by photographers of the U.S. armed forces. The Pictorial Record, a subseries of three volumes, has therefore been compiled to show in greater detail the conditions under which the combat forces lived, the methods by which they were trained, the weapons they and their opponents used, the terrain over which they fought, and the support they received from the technical branches of the U. S. Army, the U. S. Army Air Forces, and the U.S. Navy. This volume is arranged in sections that follow the course of the war chronologically; the written text has been kept to a minimum, each section having a brief introduction recounting the major events covered therein.