Operation Forager: 1944 Battle for Saipan, Invasion of Tinian, and Recapture of Guam (WW2 Pacific Military History Series) Paperback – April 20, 2021

Having walked the battlefieldsdescribed by the Author, I gained a whole new appreciation for the sacrifices these brave Men gave for their country. Side note: when I was leaving Tinian to return to Saipan by a tourist launch, I was seated beside an older and distinguished Japanese gentleman....he spoke no English, but through gestures and while pointing at a book written in Kanji, he cae to a picture of a Japanese fighter pilot, the pilot was sitting in his cockpit and the picture was obviously taken by the pilot of an adjoining plane flying beside him. The gentleman pointed at the picture, then athimself, then pointed to Tinian....I then realized, he was telling me he was a pilot stationed on Tinian during WWII. Then in his broken English he said....Marines....ferocious! GySgt Lee Smart, USMC, retired

I read a lot of books on WW2, nice encapsulation of these battles. Ads to my knowledge base Abel’s desire to go see these places that these hero’s have their lives to defend our great country.

Liked the book immensely the research is incredible took the diaries and made them into a great story my father was a member of the14th marines and it’s always good to read about his life at war

Mr. Wrinn has produced a compilation of interesting facts, mixed with very pedestrian recitals of bare-bones unit and individual service records, but with no bigger picture and no grand sweep of history. He does a poor job of putting the Marianas campaign into context with the longer, larger war in the Pacific.He'd have benefited from a much more ambitious and aggressive editor who'd have caught his hundreds of sentence fragments and corrected them. Even just linking some of the free-standing dependent clauses with a colon, semi-colon, or dash to tie them to another complete sentence would have done the trick nicely — but this book is written generally without such punctuation subtleties. A better editor might also have encouraged him to provide captions and explanations for the embedded photos, which (at least in the Kindle version) simply have to be guessed at. Mr. Wrinn's editor's obvious shortcomings, if graded alone, would get one star from me.I bought the book, frankly, because I was looking specifically for an in-depth discussion of the Second Battle of Guam. In it, my father, a newly commissioned ensign on fast attack transport USS Zeilin (APA-3), commanded a Higgins boat — specifically, a landing craft, vehicle & tank (LCVT), which at one point this book mis-renders as "LVCT" — putting ashore Marines from the First Marine Provisional Brigade under heavy fire at Agat on Guam, or more specifically, just outside the reef offshore of the beach at Agat. This particular landing could have been examined as another tragic story of Navy Brass' inability to fully appreciate the lessons from earlier landings on Pacific islands with extensive offshore coral reefs. Alas, the book generally shorts the Navy at the expense of the Army, and shorts the story of the landings at Saipan, Tinian, and Guam in favor of the discussion of the ensuing land battles.The dedicated WW2 history buff will nevertheless appreciate the collection of individual anecdotes and anecdotes about individuals. But compared, for example, to other recent re-examinings of the war in the Pacific like James D. Hornfischer's magnificent "The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945," this book is a distant also-ran.

This is a good overview of the campaign. I purchased it for a trip to Guam recently and it really helped me understand the battle. After the purchase, I realized that the book is actually a compilation of three of the author's books (Saipan, Guam, Tinian) as such, the chapter layout is a bit disorganized. Also, from an purchasing standpoint, there is nothing in the Amazon description to inform the customer that " Operation Forager" is a compilation of three other books that are also written by Mr Wrinn. Luckily, I bought the volume on Guam on Kindle to carry with my on my flight and saved duplicating the other volumes. One highlight of Mr Wrinn's works is his personal accounts. It was moving standing on the sites in Guam after reading the accounts of battle in the Marine's own words.

I've read more of his books and look forward to reading more quick history of island hopping battles of world war two .

This book covers 3 related military operations in the Pacific Theater during WWII: Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. The book covers the operations at both the command and grunt levels. The writing flows well, and the book is dotted with many interesting photos. A good read, especially if you are a military buff.

It's a well-researched book, with real-world examples. I'm not a histi junkie but wanted to give this a try because of the good ratings. It will lead you take a look at the World War 2 history in the Pacific theater. Kudos to the details.

This is a very amateurish work that has plagiarised its information from the many books written about the Saipan, Tinian, Guam campaign. It gives a very brief overview of the campaign but smacks almost of some sort of high school project in its layout. Ok if you know absolutely nothing about the Marianas fighting but not for serious history buffs.