Us Marine Corps Handbook 1941-5 - Hardcover

Forty, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750941960 ISBN 13: 9780750941969

Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Employing a wide range of archive black and white photographs, George Forty examines the US Marine Corps’ organization, strategy, tactics and doctrine during the Second World War. As well as providing brief biographies of its most important and influential figures, he surveys insignia, uniforms and personal equipment to provide a complete portrait of the US Marine Corps at war.

About this title

About the Author:

Lt.-Col. George Forty Obe, FMA has written many books for Sutton, including Leakey’s Luck: A Tank Commander with Nine Lives, US Army Handbook 1939–1945 and Japanese Army Handbook 1939–1945. Formerly Curator of the Tank Museum at Bovington in Dorset, he served in the British Army for thirty-two years with the Royal Tank Regiment.

Review:

WWII History Magazine, May 2007
"...US Marine Corps Handbook is an enormously informative and entertaining look at one of America's elite fighting units."

About this edition

• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0750941960
• ISBN 13: 9780750941969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 279