The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa
Joseph H. Alexander
Read by Aaron Bennett
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 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Countdown to 'Love-Day' | 21:19 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Sidebars - The Senior Marine Commanders and The Japanese Forces | 12:05 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| L-Day and Movement to Contact | 27:09 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| The Air and Sea Battles | 16:15 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Sidebars - The U.S. Army at Okinawa and Marine Air at Okinawa | 10:37 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Assault on Shuri | 34:15 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Sidebars - Marine Artillery at Okinawa and Marine Tanks at Okinawa | 12:58 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Closing the Loop | 26:21 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Sidebar - Subsidiary Amphibious Landings | 5:17 | Read by Aaron Bennett |
| Legacy and Sidebar: For Extraordinary Heroism | 9:47 | Read by Aaron Bennett |