Customer Reviews

US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1941-45: Pacific (Warrior)

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This is a very solid overview of training, uniforms, and tactics that marine tankers were taught and developed throughout the course of the pacific campaign. I highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in WW2 armor, but especially to someone that needs resource materials for a diorama of the pacific involving marines, marine tanks or both. The color plates are beautifully rendered and well researched.

This compact volume gives an excellent description of US Marine Corps armor doctrine, equipment, training, organization, operations and personnel in WWII. Following the Osprey Warrior series format, it uses an imaginary Marine tanker as the vehicle for telling about Marine armor and tankers. The books in very well-written and packed with information. It appears to draw heavily on the research that the author used for some of his earlier (and also superb) books on the subject.

My only significant complaint is that the color plates are adequate but not up to Osprey's usual standards. This might have caused me to reduce my rating by one star, but the excellence of the rest of the book still justified five stars in my opinion.

This book is definitely worth purchasing if the subject interests you.