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The Corps of Engineers : the war against Japan / by Karl C. Dod.

by Dod, Karl C., author.

Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army, 2017.

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers -- History.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- East Asia.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States.

United States Army in World War II. Technical services.

CMH pub ; 10-6.

xv, 759 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm

Strengthening the defense triangle: Panama, Hawaii and Alaska. Early war plans and the corps of engineers ; First steps in building up the Pacific outposts -- The defense effort gains momentum. Panama ; Alaska ; Hawaii ; The air ferry route ; Supplies ; War appears imminent ; Last days of peace -- The fall of the Philippines. Preparations for defense ; Withdrawal to Bataan and Corregidor ; Bataan ; Corregidor and the end of the campaign -- Build-up in the southwest Pacific. Australia: the first days ; Toward a more aggressive strategy ; Preparing for the offensive -- First offensives: the Solomons and Papua. Strengthening the south Pacific ; Preparing to fight in New Guinea ; Engineers in combat ; Problems with logistics -- The drive toward Rabaul. Preparing for CARTWHEEL ; CARTWHEEL ; The engineers continue to furnish logistic support ; Arawe, Cape Gloucester and Saidor -- The far north. Strengthening Alaska's defenses ; The Alcan Highway ; Canol ; The danger passes -- Hawaii after Pearl Harbor. The engineers organize for war ; Protection against air raids ; Military defenses ; Change in organization -- After Midway. Work on defensive installations slows down ; First offensives in the Central Pacific -- The China-Burma-India theater: 1941-August 1943. Priority on airfields ; Ground communications for a campaign in Burma ; Renewed priority on airfields -- The China-Burma-India theater: August 1943-January 1945. QUADRANT directs all-out effort ; The all-out effort continues ; The CBI is cut back -- The drive across central Pacific. The Marshalls ; Logistical support from Hawaii ; The Marianas ; 1944 draws to a close -- Amphibious warfare and base construction in the southwest Pacific. The advance to Biak ; Logistical support ; Western New Guinea and the Moluccas -- Return to the Philippines. Leyte and Mindoro ; Luzon: the drive to Manila ; The capture of Manila and the islands of Manila Bay -- The final months of the war. Destruction of the Japanese in the Philippines and Borneo ; Iwo Jima ; Okinawa ; Base and airfield construction for the assault on Japan ; Planning for the invasion of Japan ; Conclusion -- Appendix.

Engineer activities in the Pacific war, with particular emphasis on those in General MacArthur's Southwest Pacific Area.

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