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Okinawa 1945 Gordon L. Rottman

Okinawa 1945 By Gordon L. Rottman

Okinawa 1945 by Gordon L. Rottman

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The battle of Okinawa was the last battle fought in the Pacific War. The bitterness of the fighting on Okinawa helped persuade the US that an assault on the Japanese mainland would result in massive US casualties and led directly to the dropping of the atomic bomb. This book describes the events.

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Okinawa 1945: The last battle by Gordon L. Rottman

The final preliminary to the invasion of the Japanese mainland was possession of the Ryukyu island group, midway between Formosa and Kyushu, the southernmost island of the Japanese homeland. The target of Operation 'Iceberg' was Okinawa, the largest island in the group. This book details the largest and most complicated amphibious expedition undertaken in the Pacific, when Admiral Spruance's Fifth Fleet lifted Lt. Gen. S.B. Buckner's Tenth Army, the XXIV Corps under Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge and III Marine Amphibious Corps (Maj. Gen R.S. Geiger). Defending Okinawa was the Japanese 32nd army of 130,000 men under Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima.

About Gordon L. Rottman

Gordon L Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He was assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group, and then to the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969-70. Entering the Texas Army National Guard in 1974, he was the full-time Operations Sergeant of 2nd Bn., 143rd Inf., 36th Airborne Brigade until 1980, when he assumed a similar position with Co. G (Ranger), 143rd Inf. Since 1986 he has worked part-time as the Opposing Forces Group Operations Sergeant in the Army Reserve's 75th Manoeuvre Area Command in Houston, and is a civilian contract Special Operations Forces Intelligence Specialist at the Army's Joint Readiness Centre, Ft Polk.

Table of Contents

Introduction * Chronology * The Opposing Plans * The Opposing Commanders * The Opposing Armies * Preliminary operations * The Landings * Operation TEN-GO * Advance and Stalemate * Japanese Counterattack * Buckner's offensive * The final operations * The Battlefield Today * Bibliography * Index

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GOR006784818
9781855326071
1855326078
Okinawa 1945: The last battle by Gordon L. Rottman
Gordon L. Rottman
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Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20020325
96
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