US Army

Remember the Army's Role in the Pacific War: Important Then, Influential Afterward

by John C. McManus

During the second World War and after, the Marine Corps has received admiration and attention for its role in the Pacific, but the Army carried out a huge number of invasions and performed the logistics other services depended on. The Army's experiences in WWII also were foundational, for good and ill, for the next half-century of American war.