US Marine Corps Pacific Theater of Operations 1941–43 (Battle Orders)

The outbreak of World War II set in motion a massive expansion of the United States Marine Corps, leading to a 24-fold increase in size by August 1945. This book is the first of several volumes to examine the Corps's meteoric wartime expansion and the evolution of its units. It covers the immediate pre-war period, the rush to deploy defense forces in the war's early months, and the Marines' first combat operations on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, and Bougainville. It focuses on the 1st, 2d, and 3d Marine Divisions (MarDivs) and the provisional 1st, 2d, and 3d Marine Brigades (MarBdes). This highly detailed study reveals how, despite being often poorly equipped and sometimes fighting with little external support against a resolute enemy, the US marines evolved into a well equipped and ideally organized amphibious assault force that eventually aided in the defeat of an empire. 2. Verdenskrig. USA. Marinekorpsets operationer i Stillehavet 1941-43. Beskrivelse af doktriner, uddannelse, organisation, taktik, våben og udrustning, troppeinddeling/order of battle samt operationer The US Marine Corps (USMC) was a component of the Navy Department: it was not a component of the US Navy (USN) as is often assumed.