Their backs against the sea : the Battle of Saipan and the largest Banzai attack of World War II / Bill Sloan.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:[New York] : Da Capo Press, 2017تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2017الطبعات:First Da Capo Press editionوصف:278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780306824715
- 030682471X
- Battle of Saipan and the largest banzai attack of World War II
- United States. Marine Corps -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
- United States. Marine Corps -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
- United States. Marine Corps
- Saipan, Battle of (Northern Mariana Islands : 1944)
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944
- HISTORY / Military / United States
- HISTORY / Military / World War II
- Northern Mariana Islands
- D767.99.S3 S56 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index.
Islands of mystery -- The infernal beach -- The eternal beach -- Enter the 27th Division -- The Marianas turkey shoot -- Smith vs. Smith -- "Something's coming!" -- To die with honor -- The aftermath -- Tinian's rolling plains -- Coming home -- Tinian and the B-29 -- Dismay in Japan.
In the midst of the largest banzai attack of the war, US Army Lt. Col. William O'Brien, grievously wounded and out of ammunition, grabbed a sabre from a fallen Japanese soldier and flailed away at a small army of assailants, screaming to his men, "Don't give them a damn inch!" When his body was recovered the next day, thirty dead enemies were piled around him. The Battle of Saipan lasted twenty-five hellish days in the summer of 1944, and the stakes couldn't have been higher. If Japan lost possession of the island, all hope for victory would be lost. For the Americans, its capture would result in secure air bases for the new B-29s that would put them within striking distance of the Japanese homeland. The outcome of the war in the Pacific lay in the balance. In this gritty, vivid narrative, award-winning author Bill Sloan fuses fresh interviews, oral and unit histories, and unpublished accounts to describe one of the war's bloodiest and most overlooked battles of the Pacific theater. Combining grunt's-view grit with big picture panorama (and one of the ugliest inter-service controversies of the war), Their Backs against the Sea is the definitive dramatic story of this epic battle--and an inspiring chronicle of some of the greatest acts of valor in American military history.