After The Battle # 43 (Okinawa, First Marine Division, Japan, Wana Ridge, WW2)

Description: Please read item description After The Battle, Issue 43 This edition is dedicated to The Battle For Okinawa and Charles Leonard, a U.S. Marine who fought there. The 82-day battle for the island of Okinawa was the most costly and violent campaign of the Pacific war. Both sides often came to close quarters. Bayonets were regularly used to kill and, until the last few days of the campaign, few prisoners were taken alive by the Americans. The Japanese killed all prisoners. Charles Leonard, a member of the First Marine Division, was just 18 when he was shipped in as one of the 2,500 riflemen replacements in May 1945. The invasion had begun on April 1st, and by the time the campaign ended on June 22nd over a quarter of a million soldiers and civilians, men, women and children were dead in what Charles describes as “for ferocity and inhumanity, perhaps the single most costly battle ever”. In April 1983 he returned to the island from Danville, California – fulfilling a promise he made to himself thirty-eight years before that some day he would return. The first half of this issue covers in detail the strategy, tactics and fighting on the island throughout the invasion period whilst the second half looks at Charles Leonard’s return and is an account of his experiences and action whilst on Okinawa. These articles are very well illustrated with many dozens of photographs and full use of the “Then and Now” format is used. Another 54 pages of fascinating reading from this respected publication. Well illustrated throughout with black and white photographs many following the familiar “Then and Now” theme.

Price: 7.35 GBP

Location: Malton, North Yorkshire

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Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

Country/ Organization: All WW2

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Theme: Militaria

Type: Books

Conflict: World War II (1939-1945)

Service: All Services

Era: 1914-1945