The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa
The three-month-long battle of Okinawa covered a 700-mile arc from
Formosa to Kyushu and involved a million combatants--Americans,
Japanese, British, and native Okinawans. With a magnitude that rivaled
the Normandy invasion the previous June, the battle of Okinawa was the
biggest and costliest single operation of the Pacific War. For each of
its 82 days of combat, the battle would claim an average of 3,000 lives
from the antagonists and the unfortunate non-combatants.” (Joseph H. Alexander)
Genre(s): War & Military
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa | Aaron Bennett |
00:05:38 |
| Play 02 | Countdown to 'Love-Day' | Aaron Bennett |
00:21:19 |
| Play 03 | Sidebars - The Senior Marine Commanders and The Japanese Forces | Aaron Bennett |
00:12:05 |
| Play 04 | L-Day and Movement to Contact | Aaron Bennett |
00:27:09 |
| Play 05 | The Air and Sea Battles | Aaron Bennett |
00:16:15 |
| Play 06 | Sidebars - The U.S. Army at Okinawa and Marine Air at Okinawa | Aaron Bennett |
00:10:37 |
| Play 07 | Assault on Shuri | Aaron Bennett |
00:34:15 |
| Play 08 | Sidebars - Marine Artillery at Okinawa and Marine Tanks at Okinawa | Aaron Bennett |
00:12:58 |
| Play 09 | Closing the Loop | Aaron Bennett |
00:26:21 |
| Play 10 | Sidebar - Subsidiary Amphibious Landings | Aaron Bennett |
00:05:17 |
| Play 11 | Legacy and Sidebar: For Extraordinary Heroism | Aaron Bennett |
00:09:47 |