Background
Crowl, Philip Axtell was born on December 17, 1914 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Frank Denton and Clementine (Axtell) Crowl.
( Covers the amphibious warfare and describes how the imp...)
Covers the amphibious warfare and describes how the imperfections of the American amphibious doctrine, first revealed at Tarawa and Makin, were corrected in the highly successful landings on Kwajalein and Roi-Namur. Includes maps, tables, charts, illustrations, appendixes, bibliographical note, glossary and index.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0160018919/?tag=2022091-20
(Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls deals with amphibio...)
Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls deals with amphibious warfare as waged by American forces against the Japanese-held atolls of the Central Pacific during World War II. The word amphibious, as here used, includes the landing and supply of troops in combat as well as the air and naval support of the operations. The atoll operations described in this volume were amphibious from beginning to end. They were not simple seaborne hit-and-run raids of the Dieppe type. The objective was to secure the atolls as steppingstones to the next advance. The islands were relatively small, permitting continual naval and air support of the ground operations. Some outstanding examples of the co-ordination of fire support by artillery, naval gunfire, and air are found in this book. The advantages of simple plans and the disadvantages of the more complicated will stand out for the careful reader. The story of the capture of these atolls of Micronesia offers some of the best examples of combined operations that are available in the annals of modern war. Ground, sea, and air components were always present, and the effectiveness with which they were combined and co-ordinated accounts in large measure for the rapid success enjoyed in these instances by American arms. Units of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps were active participants in the operations and the role they played is treated in this volume as fully as is considered appropriate in a series devoted to the history of the U.S. Army in World War II. From the point of view of strategy, the significance of this volume lies in the fact that it tells the story of the beginnings of the drive across the Central Pacific toward the Japanese homeland. This concept of defeating Japan by pushing directly westward from Hawaii through the island bases of the mid-Pacific was traditional in American strategic thinking, but had never been put to test and was seriously challenged in some quarters. As is shown here, the test was first made in the campaigns against the Gilberts and Marshalls, the outcome was successful, and the experience gained was of inestimable value in planning for the subsequent conduct of the war in the Pacific. Orlando Ward Washington, D. C. Maj. Gen., U. S. A. 9 January 1953 Chief of Military History
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1410220036/?tag=2022091-20
(A study in amphibious warfare that describes how the impe...)
A study in amphibious warfare that describes how the imperfections of American amphibious doctrine, first revealed at Tarawa and Makin, were corrected in the highly successful landings on Kwajalein and Roi-Namur.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0083I7TEQ/?tag=2022091-20
Crowl, Philip Axtell was born on December 17, 1914 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Frank Denton and Clementine (Axtell) Crowl.
Bachelor of Arts, Swarthmore College, 1936; postgraduate, Yale Law School, 1936-1937; Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1939; Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins, 1942.
Instructor, Princeton, 1941-1942;
assistant professor of history, Princeton, 1945-1949;
research associate, Princeton, 1964;
historian, Department Army, 1949-1955;
intelligence officer, State Department, 1957-1967;
director, consultant, John Foster Dulles Oral History Project, Princeton, 1964-1966;
professor, department chairman history, U. Nebraska, 1967-1973;
department chairman strategy, Naval War College, 1973-1980;
professor emeritus, Naval War College, from 1980. Harmon memorial lecturer United States Air Force Academy, 1978. Lecturer National War College, 1981.
President advisory board archival affairs National Archives region 6, Kansas City, Missoury, 1968-1971. Board directors Harry S. Truman Library Institute, 1968-1973. Member history advisory board United States Marine Corps, 1969-1971, United States Air Force, 1983-1986.
Member National History Publs. Commission, 1969-1972.
( Covers the amphibious warfare and describes how the imp...)
(A study in amphibious warfare that describes how the impe...)
(Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls deals with amphibio...)
(Mint condition. Ships Daily.)
Served to lieutenant comr. United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1945. Member American History Society, American Military Institute (trustee 1976-1980), United States Naval Institute, Marine Corps History Foundation (board directors 1982-1986), Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Upsilon.
Clubs: Cosmos (Washington). Nassau (Princeton, New Jersey).
Married Mary Ellen Wood, September 9, 1943. Children: Ellen Wood, Catherine Pauline, Margaret Axtell.