Last Man Standing, Dick Camp
Last Man Standing, Dick Camp
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Last Man Standing
The 1st Marine Regiment on Peleliu, September 15-21, 1944

Author: Dick Camp

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/04/2017

Synopsis

One of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, Operation Stalemate, as Peleliu was called, was overshadowed by the Normandy landings. It was also, in time, judged by most historians to have been unnecessary; though it had been conceived to protect MacArthur's flank in the Philippines, the U. S. fleet's carrier raids had eliminated Japanese airpower, rendering Peleliu irrelevant. Nevertheless, the horrifying number of casualties sustained there foreshadowed for the rest of the war: rather than fight to the death on the beach, the Japanese would now defend in depth and bleed the Americans white.

Drawing extensively on personal interviews, the Marine Corps History Division's vast oral history and photographic collection, and many never-before-published sources, this book gives us a new and harrowing vision of what really happened at Peleliu—and what it meant. Working closely with two of the 1st Regiment's battalion commanders—Ray Davis and Russ Honsowetz—Marine Corps veteran and military historian Dick Camp recreates the battle as it was experienced by the men and their officers.

About Dick Camp

Dick Camp served as a Marine officer for twenty-six years before retiring in 1988. He was a company commander in Vietnam with the third Marine Division along the DMZ and Khe Sanh. After retiring, Dick spent sixteen years in Cincinnati, where he was employed as a school district business manager.

He has published more than 150 military oriented articles for various magazines. Dick is also the author of fourteen books.

He is an accomplished speaker on military history topics. He had been a presenter at the Gettysburg National Park Service's World War II Weekend; Williams burg's Military History Weekend, The Basic School, Command and Staff College, U. S. Marine Corps, Quantico, Va; Army Navy Club, Washington, D. C. and has been a "talking head" for an episode of Discovery Channel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by fourtriplezed on October 06, 2018

A good read on the carnage that was the first five days on Peleiu for the 1st Marine Regiment. One has to question the point the exercise and Brig. Gen. O P Smith said as much in an interview with Associated Press years after the battle. Why not just take the airfield as had already happened when on......more

Goodreads review by Mahlon on August 29, 2010

In Last Man Standing, retired Marine Colonel Dick Camp has melded his own personal interviews, with material from the Marine Corps archives to tell the story of the First Marine Regiment on Peleliu, one of WWII's bloodiest battles. One of the Regiment's main objectives was a series of ridges dominat......more

Goodreads review by Alex on November 14, 2012

Not knowing my grandfather, REIBLICH, Ralph D. - PFC - C Co. Third Armored Amphibian Bn. - Now deceased, and not being able to hear about his account at Peleliu, this book has made it all clear. A well written account to the hell that was endured by the 1st Marine Regiment. Thank you Dick Camp.......more

Goodreads review by Steve on August 29, 2023

I listened to the audiobook of this work, and found it to be repetitive. An example--One account of the bombing of a Japanese bunker on Pelelieu was repeated twice, each account being perfectly identical. It was a very redundant piece of writing. The chronology of the work was skewed, jumping back an......more

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