The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa, credited to Joseph H. Alexander, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa by Joseph H. Alexander. Read in English by Aaron Bennett The three-month-long battle of Okinawa covered a 700-mile arc from Formosa to Kyushu and involved a million combatants--Americans, Japanese, British, and native Okinawans. With a magnitude that rivaled the Normandy invasion the previous June, the battle of Okinawa was the biggest and costliest single operation of the Pacific War. For each of its 82 days of combat, the battle would claim an average of 3,000 lives from the antagonists and the unfortunate non-combatants.” (Joseph H. Alexander)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa
• Author credits: Joseph H. Alexander
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 3:01:41

Catalogue topics

• WWII
• Pacific campaign
• war
• World war

Track guide

1. 01 - The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa — 5:38
2. 02 - Countdown to 'Love-Day' — 21:19
3. 03 - Sidebars - The Senior Marine Commanders and The Japanese Forces — 12:05
4. 04 - L-Day and Movement to Contact — 27:09
5. 05 - The Air and Sea Battles — 16:15
6. 06 - Sidebars - The U.S. Army at Okinawa and Marine Air at Okinawa — 10:37
7. 07 - Assault on Shuri — 34:15
8. 08 - Sidebars - Marine Artillery at Okinawa and Marine Tanks at Okinawa — 12:58
9. 09 - Closing the Loop — 26:21
10. 10 - Sidebar - Subsidiary Amphibious Landings — 5:17
11. 11 - Legacy and Sidebar: For Extraordinary Heroism — 9:47

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