Killing Ground on Okinawa - Hallas James H.
Killing Ground on Okinawa - Hallas James H. A key point in the Japanese defensive line on Okinawa in May 1945, Sugar Loaf Hill was the site of a tenacious seven-day battle that inflicted heavy…
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Killing Ground on Okinawa - Hallas James H.
A key point in the Japanese defensive line on Okinawa in May 1945, Sugar Loaf Hill was the site of a tenacious seven-day battle that inflicted heavy casualties on the U.S. In this emotionally compelling account of the fierce fight, James H. Marines attacking the hill.
To give human dimensions to the story, the author draws on his many interviews with participants and skillfully weaves together their individual stories of the sustained close-quarter fighting that claimed more than 2,000 Marine casualties. Hallas chronicles the extraordinary courage and tactical skills of the 6th Marine Division's junior officers and enlisted men as they captured a network of sophisticated Japanese defenses on Sugar Loaf while under heavy artillery fire from surrounding hills. Pushed to their physical and moral limits during eleven attempts to capture the fifty-foot-high 300-yard-long hill, the
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