TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tachovsky,Joseph
AU  - Kraack,Cynthia
TI  - 40 Thieves on Saipan :  The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles
SN  - 9781684510481
AV  - D767.99.S3 T33 2020
U1  - 940.54/2667 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Regnery History
KW  - Tachovsky, Frank
KW  - United States
KW  - Marine Corps
KW  - Biography
KW  - Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Marines
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Northern Mariana Islands
KW  - World War II
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "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
ER  -