On Valor's Side: A Marine's Own Story of Parris Island and Guadalcanal
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00L887N9Y |
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| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wow #colinatorisawsome!!!!!#cool I've always loved ww2 stories, but this is the best by far!! Even though I haven't read many.I loved it!!. Arnold Howard said Vivid Account of WWII Marine Corps. I first read this book at age 1Vivid Account of WWII Marine Corps Arnold Howard I first read this book at age 14 one summer. Last week, 38 years later, I read it again.The book is humorous, memorable, and vividly written. You will find yourself aboard a troop transport on the way to an unknown destination. You will see Guadalcanal looming before you as you look over the ramp of a Higgins boat, you will feel the exhaustion of the hostile jungle, and you will be glad to board ship again when you leave the island.The book is fiction, but you can tell that the author writes about his own experiences on. one summer. Last week, Vivid Account of WWII Marine Corps I first read this book at age 1Vivid Account of WWII Marine Corps Arnold Howard I first read this book at age 14 one summer. Last week, 38 years later, I read it again.The book is humorous, memorable, and vividly written. You will find yourself aboard a troop transport on the way to an unknown destination. You will see Guadalcanal looming before you as you look over the ramp of a Higgins boat, you will feel the exhaustion of the hostile jungle, and you will be glad to board ship again when you leave the island.The book is fiction, but you can tell that the author writes about his own experiences on. one summer. Last week, 38 years later, I read it again.The book is humorous, memorable, and vividly written. You will find yourself aboard a troop transport on the way to an unknown destination. You will see Guadalcanal looming before you as you look over the ramp of a Higgins boat, you will feel the exhaustion of the hostile jungle, and you will be glad to board ship again when you leave the island.The book is fiction, but you can tell that the author writes about his own experiences on. 8 years later, I read it again.The book is humorous, memorable, and vividly written. You will find yourself aboard a troop transport on the way to an unknown destination. You will see Guadalcanal looming before you as you look over the ramp of a Higgins boat, you will feel the exhaustion of the hostile jungle, and you will be glad to board ship again when you leave the island.The book is fiction, but you can tell that the author writes about his own experiences on. "Good description of WWII Marine training and experiences" according to mcbapb@worldnet.att.net. Gallant gives an exciting and interesting description of Marine training at Parris Island in the early days of WWII including some of the disorganization and uncertainty of those days. His description of the assault on Guadalcanal nicely reflects the naivte of the Marines of that time about island and jungle combat. His narrative also portrays a group of men to whom valourous action was a part of everyday behavior.
On Valor's Side, first published in 1963, is the autobiographical account of enlisted man T. Grady Gallant's experiences in the First Marine Division in the Second World War from 1941 through January 1943. On Valor's Side, one of the first personal memoirs describing Marine-life and Guadalcanal in such vivid detail, remains an important, well-written account by someone who was there.. The book is divided into roughly two equal parts, the first covering the grueling training the new Marines received at Parris Island; the second covering the unit's travel first to New Zealand and then on to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, where they endured a wide range of difficulties – climate, insects, disease, faulty equipment, poor food - in addition to the determined efforts of the Japanese army, navy and air forces to dislodge them from the island