03438cam a2200469 i 4500 626051890 TxAuBib 20220720120000.0 200729s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781734534108 hardcover 1734534109 hardcover (OCoLC)1179004933 TTK TTK eng eng rda rda TTK rda OCLCO rda TTK OCLCQ OCLCO TXI IGA TXAAL TxAuBib OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO TXI IGA TXAAL TxAuBib rda Rigg, Bryan Mark, 1971-, author. Flamethrower : Iwo Jima Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and his controversial award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War / Bryan Mark Rigg. Iwo Jima Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and his controversial award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War. Addison, TX : Fidelis Historia, LLC, [2020] ©2020. lvii, 973 pages, 56 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles (chiefly color), photographs (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 825-942) and index. "Imagine strapping on a highly flammable 70-pound pack and entering combat as a surefire walking target - and you'd only begin to understand the job, and the horror, of [a] Marine Corps flamethrower man. That's precisely what Hershel "Woody" Williams did in World War II, most importantly in February 1945 on Iwo Jima, one of the Pacific War's toughest battles. A few days into the battle, Marines were fighting hard for an airfield, and his captain asked Woody if he could do anything. He responded, "I'll try"--And for the next four hours, he virtually singlehandedly took on and ultimately destroyed seven enemy pillboxes and helped secure the airfield. Accomplished military historian Bryan Mark Rigg reconstructs Williams' remarkable story, from his youth in West Virginia to his experiences on Guadalcanal, Saipan, Guam, and most significantly Iwo Jima. In Rigg's telling, Williams' Medal of Honor action is not "just" a brave deed, but one of only a few strategically significant brave deeds - one that secured a strategic objective during a major campaign. Rigg tells Williams' story vividly, and objectively, and places it in the context of the broader Pacific theater of World War II."-- Provided by publisher. 20220720. Williams, Hershel Woodrow 1923-2022. United States Marine Corps Marine Regiment, 21st C Battery. United States Marine Corps Biography. United States Marine Corps History World War, 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area. Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945. Medal of Honor Biography. Biographies. Williams, Hershel Woodrow, 1923-2022, honoree. Krulak, Charles C., writer of foreword. Gray, Alfred M., writer of foreword. Zinni, Anthony C., writer of foreword. TXAAL