Adrian R. Martin
Author of Operation PLUM: The Ill-fated 27th Bombardment Group and the Fight for the Western Pacific
Works by Adrian R. Martin
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- Legal name
- Martin, Adrian Robert
- Birthdate
- 1944
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Occupations
- historian (military)
teacher (high school, retired)
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- 2
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- Popularity
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- Rating
- 3.5
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- 1
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- 4
Apart from the aspects of family and unit history, which I commend, the authors do fall a little flat in their epilog when they try to turn this tale into a parable of unpreparedness. That this might really be the story of how a bad strategic choice (the annexation of the Philippines by the United States in the first place) eventually yielded a bitter harvest really isn't addressed.… (more)