Description
378 pages
Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: The Wildcat Division of World War I
Chapter 2: Organization and Composition of the Division
Chapter 3: Basic Training Period
Chapler 4: Cadre for the 87th Division
Chapter 5: Unit Training Period
Chapter 6: Combined-Arms Training
Chapter 7: Tennessee Maneuvers
Chapter 8: The Desert
Chapter 9: Camp San Luis Obispo
Chapter 10: Camp Beale and POM
Chapter 11: Camp Stoneman and Embarkation
Chapter 12: Aloha, Hawaii!
Chapter 13: Preparations for Operation Stalemate
Chapter 14: En Route to Angaur
Chapter 15: Assault on Angaur
Chapter 16: Mopping up Angaur
Chapter 17: Action on Peleliu
Chapter 18: Ulithi to Fais
Chapter 19: Station Western Carolines
Chapter 20: Life on New Caledonia
Chapter 21 : Preparation for Operation Iceberg
Chapter 22: Leyte
Chapter 23: The Second Battle Star
Chapter 24 : Plans for Operation Olympic
Chapter 25: Switch to Operation Blacklist
Chapter 26: Target Japan
Chapter 27: Occupation of Japan
Chapter 28: Station Japan
Chapter 29 : Military Government
Chapter 30: Readjustment of Individuals
Chapter 31: Inactivation
Appendix I: The Deceased
Appendix II: Wounded in Action
Appendix III: Honors
Appendix IV: Commanders and Principal Staff Officers
Appendix V: Attached Units and Their Commanders
Pictorial History
Maps
1: The Pacific
2: Plan A, Preferred Plan for Attack on Angaur
3: Angaur Island
4: Japanese Fortifications on Angaur
5: Angaur, 0900, 17 September 1944
6: RCT 322 and RCT 321
7: Positions on Angaur, Night of 17-18 September 1944
8: Angaur, 18 September 1944
9: Angaur, 19 September 1944
10: “Island Secure.” Angaur at 1034, 20 September 1944
11: Angaur, 20 September 1944
12: Angaur, 21 September 1944
13: Angaur, 22 September 1944
14: Northwestern Angaur, 25 September 1944
15: Northwestern Angaur, 1400, 28 September 1944
16: Northwestern Angaur, 2400, 5 October 1944
17: Northwestern Angaur, 2400, 14 October 1944
18: Northwestern Angaur, 2400, 18 October 1944
19: The End of the Siege: Northwestern Angaur, 20 Octo ber 1944
20: Peleliu Island
21: Peleliu, 24 September 1944
22: Peleliu, 26 September 1944
23: Peleliu, 27 September 1944
24: Peleliu, 28 September 1944
25: Peleliu, 30 September 1944
26: Peleliu, 4-11 October 1944
27: Peleliu, 13-16 October 1944
28: Peleliu, 17 October 1944
29: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 18 October 1944
30: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 19 October 1944
31: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 21 October 1944
32: Peleliu: Central Combat Zone, 22 October 1944
33: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 26-31 October 1944
34: Peleliu: Defense Sectors and Outposts
35: Peleliu: Central Combat Zone, 2 November 1944
36: Ngeregong Island Operations
37: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 13 November 1944
38: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 22-23 November 1944
39: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 24 November 1944
40: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 27 November 1944
41: Occupation of Ulithi Atoll
42: Capture of Ngulu Atoll
43: Occupation of Pulo Anna
44: Occupation of Kayangel Atoll and the Fais Operation
45: New Caledonia
46: Okinawa: Possible Initial Combat Missions
47: Leyte
48: Northwestern Leyte
49: Kyushu: Pl anning for Olympic Operation
50: Aomori Prefecture