Marine Corps Victories: Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
This 9-page, 7-source piece is an analysis of three crucial Marine Corps campaigns of World War II: Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. With an eye toward the efforts of the Marine Corps soldiers, the author of this piece gives an overview of each campaign, describing its goals and explaining how these goals were realized. The author's main focus is how all of these battles were strategically important in that they allowed the United States to continue pressing on the Japanese without allowing them to gain any significant tactical advantages. 9 pgs. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
