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Leo J. Daugherty

Author of Nam: A Photographic History

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Leo J. Daugherty III is the Command Historian for the United States Army Accessions Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He is a former Marine Corps intelligence analyst and a former associate editor of the Marine Corps Gazette. His books include Nam: A Photographic History (co-author), Fighting show more Techniques of a Japanese Infantryman, 1941-45, an6 The Marine Corps and the State Department: Enduring Partners in United States Foreign Policy, 1798-2007. He lives in Rineyville, Kentucky. show less
Image credit: Leo J. Daugherty, III [source: Train Wreckers and Ghost Killers: Allied Marines in the Korean War, 2003, page 65]

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Contains color and black-and-white photographs and maps that chronicle the history of the Vietnam War, focusing on the period between 1965 and 1975, with a look at the background to and aftereffects of the conflict. Includes explanatory text.
 
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MasseyLibrary | Jul 5, 2020 |
Received as a Christmas gift. Alas, somewhat disappointing. This has the general feel of somebody’s not-quite-complete dissertation or thesis that had a bunch of photographs, maps and drawings added for publication. (In fact, the jacket describes the author, Leo Daugherty, as an ex-Marine intelligence officer and PhD candidate in history.)


Despite the subtitle (1941-1945) the book starts with the martial tradition of the Japanese Army (and Japanese naval units, Rikusentai or Special Naval Landing Forces, that fought as infantry) as developed from 1900 on. There’s a thorough discussion of recruitment and training, unit organization (from squad to division), and tactical and operational doctrine. There are some nice photographs of Japanese units in action that I’ve never seen anywhere else, including armor actions in China. What the book lacks, however, are good actual examples relating the theory to practice. There are, for example, discussion and maps of the way a Japanese meeting engagement or prepared assault was supposed to develop, but nothing showing an actual battle and how it played out compared to theory. The examples that are given are very brief - one or two paragraphs - and almost all relate (well, not surprisingly, given the author’s background) to the island campaign in the central Pacific. There’s also an egregious error - a picture caption showing Japanese paratroopers boarding a transport states that “(Japanese paratroops) did not see service in the Pacific theater”. Perhaps the paratroop actions in the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, and the air landing on Okinawa didn’t count because they weren’t directed against the Marines.


Useful if you want a TOE for various Japanese units and already have a pretty good understanding of what went on in the Pacific, CBI, and Nomohan campaigns.
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