Bloody Okinawa by Joseph Wheelan

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/127774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloody Okinawa Author: Joseph Wheelan Narrator: George Newbern Format: mp3 Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins Release date: 03-03-20 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 111 ratings Genres: Japan Publisher's Summary: On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool.