The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa
Joseph H. Alexander
Lu par 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)
Chapitres
| The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa | 5:38 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |
| Countdown to 'Love-Day' | 21:19 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |
| Sidebars - The Senior Marine Commanders and The Japanese Forces | 12:05 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |
| L-Day and Movement to Contact | 27:09 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |
| The Air and Sea Battles | 16:15 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |
| Sidebars - The U.S. Army at Okinawa and Marine Air at Okinawa | 10:37 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |
| Assault on Shuri | 34:15 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |
| Sidebars - Marine Artillery at Okinawa and Marine Tanks at Okinawa | 12:58 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |
| Closing the Loop | 26:21 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |
| Sidebar - Subsidiary Amphibious Landings | 5:17 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |
| Legacy and Sidebar: For Extraordinary Heroism | 9:47 | Lu par Aaron Bennett |