Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire - Softcover

Foster, Simon

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9781854093530: Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire

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ISBN 10: 1854093533 ISBN 13: 9781854093530

Publisher: Weidenfeld Military, 1996

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Based on official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps sources, as well as British Admiralty and Japanese records, a dramatic narrative unfolds, reflecting the hard-fought carrier actions, air strikes, kamikaze assaults, and battleship bombardments.

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This study examines the build-up to the invasion of Okinawa, the course of the Pacific War to April 1945 and how opinion was divided in American Command as how best to tackle the last obstacle before invasion of Japan itself. Okinawa was as much a naval battle as a land battle.

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