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The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa

Gelesen von Aaron Bennett

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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) (3 hr 1 min)

Chapters

The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa

5:38

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Countdown to 'Love-Day'

21:19

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Sidebars - The Senior Marine Commanders and The Japanese Forces

12:05

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L-Day and Movement to Contact

27:09

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The Air and Sea Battles

16:15

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Sidebars - The U.S. Army at Okinawa and Marine Air at Okinawa

10:37

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Assault on Shuri

34:15

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Sidebars - Marine Artillery at Okinawa and Marine Tanks at Okinawa

12:58

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Closing the Loop

26:21

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Sidebar - Subsidiary Amphibious Landings

5:17

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Legacy and Sidebar: For Extraordinary Heroism

9:47

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