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James R. Stockman
1915–2000
A Marine Corps captain and military historian, he wrote clear, firsthand-based accounts of some of the Pacific war’s toughest campaigns. His books on Tarawa and Okinawa remain valued for their direct, documentary style.
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The Sixth Marine Division
by James R. Stockman
About the author
Born in 1915 and later buried at Arlington National Cemetery, James R. Stockman was a U.S. Marine Corps officer whose writing focused on World War II Marine operations. He is best known for campaign histories prepared while serving as a captain in the Marine Corps, drawing on unit records, reports, and interviews.
His best-known works include The Battle for Tarawa, The First Marine Division on Okinawa: 1 April - 30 June 1945, and The Sixth Marine Division. These books were written as factual military histories, and they are still used by readers looking for concise accounts of major Pacific battles.
Stockman died in 2000 at age 84. Although not a household-name literary figure, he left behind a body of work that gives modern readers a grounded view of how the Marine Corps documented and remembered the war.