World War II Pacific island guide
Subtitle: a geo-military study
By: Gordon L. Rottman ; foreword by Benis M.  Frank.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean.; Military geography -- Pacific Area.; World war, 1939-1945 -- United States.; Islands of the Pacific -- Strategic aspects.
Other titles: World War 2 Pacific island guide; World War Two Pacific island guide
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-468) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I: Geo-Military Aspects of the Pacific Theater; title: The Pacific Ocean; title: The Islands; title: Population and Political Dynamics; title: Terminology; title: Note; title: Part II: World War I in the Pacific Chronology; title: Pacific Ocean Area; title: Southwest Pacific Area; title: Part III: The Islands; title: 1. Central and Southern Pacific U.S. Possessions; title: Wake Island; title: Midway Island; title: Johnston Island; title: Palmyra Island and Kingman Reef, Line Islands; title: Christmas and Fanning Islands, Line Islands; title: Canton Island, Phoenix Group; title: French Frigate Shoal, Hawaiian Islands; title: Notes; title: Reading Suggestions; title: 2. South Pacific Area; title: The Island Bases and the Southern Lifeline; title: Borabora Island, Society Islands; title: Tongatabu Island, Tonga Islands; title: New Caledonia Island; title: Norfolk Island; title: New Hebrides Islands; title: Tutuila Island, American Samoa; title: Upolu and Savai'i Islands, Western Samoa; title: Wallis (Uv6a) Island; title: Viti Levu Island, Fiji Islands; title: Solomon Islands; title: Notes; title: Reading Suggestions; title: 3. Southwest Pacific Area; title: New Guinea (Papua and North-East New Guinea); title: Kiriwina and Woodlark Islands, Territory of Papua; title: Bismarck Archipelago; title: Netherlands East Indies (and British and Portuguese East; title: Indies Possessions); title: The Philippines; title: Notes; title: Reading Suggestions; title: 4. Central Pacific Area; title: Gilbert and Ellice Crown Colony; title: Nauru Island; title: Ocean Island; title: Japanese Mandated Territory; title: Marshall Islands; title: Mariana Islands; title: Caroline Islands; title: Notes; title: Reading Suggestions; title: 5. Western Pacific; title: Nanpo Shoto, Japan; title: Nansei Shoto, Japan; title: Reading Suggestions; title: 6. North Pacific Area; title: Aleutian Islands, Alaska; title: Reading Suggestions.