40 Thieves on Saipan : The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles
Tachovsky, Joseph
40 Thieves on Saipan : The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles Forty thieves on Saipan Joseph Tachovsky with Cynthia Kraack. - xx, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
"An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40 Thieves” were chosen for their willingness to defy rules and beat all-comers. When two Marines got into a fight, the loser ended up in the infirmary, the winner in the brig. Tachovsky wanted the winner on his team—a brush with military law was a recommendation. These full-blooded men were trained in a ruthless array of hand-to-hand killing techniques and then thrown into the battle for Saipan—Emperor Hirohito’s “Treasure” and the bulwark of the Japanese Empire in the Pacific—where they would wreak havoc in and around, but mostly behind, enemy lines. They witnessed inhuman atrocities; walked into an ambush after the cunning Japanese used wounded Marines as bait; endured body-punishing extremes of heat, hunger, and thirst; fought a relentless enemy who would not surrender; and watched best friends die."--Inside dust jacket.
9781684510481 1684510481
2019955288
Tachovsky, Frank
United States Marine Corps --Biography
Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944--Personal narratives, American
Marines--United States--Biography
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Northern Mariana Islands--Personal narratives, American
World War II
D767.99.S3 / T33 2020
940.54/2667
40 Thieves on Saipan : The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles Forty thieves on Saipan Joseph Tachovsky with Cynthia Kraack. - xx, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
"An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40 Thieves” were chosen for their willingness to defy rules and beat all-comers. When two Marines got into a fight, the loser ended up in the infirmary, the winner in the brig. Tachovsky wanted the winner on his team—a brush with military law was a recommendation. These full-blooded men were trained in a ruthless array of hand-to-hand killing techniques and then thrown into the battle for Saipan—Emperor Hirohito’s “Treasure” and the bulwark of the Japanese Empire in the Pacific—where they would wreak havoc in and around, but mostly behind, enemy lines. They witnessed inhuman atrocities; walked into an ambush after the cunning Japanese used wounded Marines as bait; endured body-punishing extremes of heat, hunger, and thirst; fought a relentless enemy who would not surrender; and watched best friends die."--Inside dust jacket.
9781684510481 1684510481
2019955288
Tachovsky, Frank
United States Marine Corps --Biography
Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944--Personal narratives, American
Marines--United States--Biography
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Northern Mariana Islands--Personal narratives, American
World War II
D767.99.S3 / T33 2020
940.54/2667