Shooting the Pacific War
Subtitle: Marine Corps combat photography in WWII
By: Thayer Soule.
Publisher: University of Kentucky Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Soule, Thayer.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.; War photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Thayer Soule couldn't believe his orders. As a junior officer with no military training or indoctrination and less than ten weeks of active duty behind him, he had been assigned to be photographic officer for the First Marine Division. The Corps had never had a photographic division before, much less a field photographic unit. But Soule accepted the challenge, created the unit from scratch, established policies for photography, and led his men into combat."--BOOK JACKET.

"Shooting the Pacific War is based on Soule's detailed wartime journals. Soule was in the unique position to interact with men at all levels of the military, and he provides intriguing closeups of generals, admirals, sergeants, and privates - everyone he met and worked with along the way. Though he witnessed the horror of war firsthand, he also writes of the vitality and intense comradeship that he and his fellow Marines experienced."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-230) and index.