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43 results for “Gun Carrier Mark I”

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BattleTPW-BAT-0013Citation or article text

Battle of Iwo Jima

A story of a volcanic ridge, two flags in the wind, and a fight that reshaped the Pacific war’s final months.

BattleTPW-BAT-0021Citation or article text

Battle of Tarawa

A story of a brutal island landing, a coral reef turned killing ground, and how one short battle rewrote amphibious warfare.

BattleTPW-BAT-0023Citation or article text

Battle of the Coral Sea

An unfolding story of carrier decks, radio reports, and long-range strikes that reshaped the Pacific war before the fleets ever met face to face.

BattleTPW-BAT-0024Citation or article text

Battle of the Philippine Sea

An air-sea clash where radar, training, and discipline turned a desperate carrier defense into a one-sided hammer blow that reshaped the Pacific war.

PersonTPW-PER-0036Citation or article text

Beauford T. Anderson

In the dark, humid hours before dawn on Okinawa, the American line around Kakazu Ridge was little more than a jagged string of foxholes and shattered stone. Technical Sergeant Beauford “Andy” Anderson and the men of his weapons platoon had spent the night listening to the island—distant artillery rumbled, mortars coughed, and now and then a Japanese flare turned the terraced fields silver for a heartbeat before dropp

OperationTPW-OPR-0004Citation or article text

Doolittle Raid

A story of a long-shot bombing raid, a borrowed carrier deck, and how one gamble shifted the course of a global war.

PersonTPW-PER-0044Citation or article text

Harold W. Bauer

The fuel gauges in Harold Bauer’s Wildcat fighter were already edging toward empty when the coastline of Guadalcanal slid beneath his wings. He had just finished leading a long, tense, overwater flight of Marine fighters up from Espiritu Santo, six hundred miles of nothing but ocean and cloud. Henderson Field, the hard-bitten airstrip the Marines called home, lay ahead as a thin strip of coral and mud, promising rest

PersonTPW-PER-0058Citation or article text

Owen Francis Patrick Hammerberg

By February 1945, much of Pearl Harbor had returned to the business of war. Battleships and carriers came and went; convoys formed up and headed west toward Iwo Jima and Okinawa. But in a side channel called West Loch, the harbor still hid a graveyard. Months earlier, a chain of explosions had torn through a cluster of tank landing ships loading ammunition for the Pacific campaign.