Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill

Contents:

  • Product details
  • Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill
  • Customer reviews
  • Membership
  • Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill by James H. Hallas

    • He has written two books, Squandered Victory: The American First Army at St.

    Product details

    Mihiel Praeger, and Devil's Anvil: The Assault on Peleliu Praeger, To the division's front lay a low, loaf-shaped hill. It looked no different from other hills seized with relative ease over the past few days. But this hill, soon to be dubbed, "Sugar Loaf," was very different indeed.

    Greenwood Publishing Group Bolero Ozon.

    Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill. Part of a complex of three hills, Sugar Loaf formed the western anchor of General Mitsuru Ushijima's Shuri Line, which stretched from coast to coast across the island. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase.

    I suppose it's because I'm a former Marine myself Vietnam was my war , but the island fights have always garnered a high percentage of my reading attention. That said, a disproportionate share of my reading has been focused on Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Iwo Jima. Oh, I've read about Bougainville, Peleliu, Guam and all the others too, but primarily in anthologies where these island battle stories were included as part of the progression.

    This book was different. But I wasn't really aware of the depth of the defensive preparations, the near-limitless stores of munitions, and I'd never seriously contemplated the part the native Okinawans would have played in defending their island.

    I wish now that I'd pressed them for their memories, especially about the battles for Sugar Loaf. This book really tells the stories of plain old guys: Just regular Marines who did their jobs with determination and dedication. Whether pulling themselves together for yet another assault, or hanging on when they're alone and stranded, they kept on fighting.

    And often they kept fighting when pretty badly wounded.

    Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill

    I wish I could run into one or two today. I'd like to thank them.

    I enjoyed a very good read. The oldest person in my Maine town that I live in was a best friend to my father growing up.

    • .
    • The Last Darling!
    • See a Problem?;
    • Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill - James H. Hallas - Google Книги?
    • Related Stories?

    He went in the Marines and my father went in the Navy. It wasn't until after he was injured in that conflict in Okinawa and sent home that he found out my father was on a picket station right beside on a Navy destroyer. I bought my fathers friend the book as well because he doesn't remember much of the battle;. It really helped me trace my Dads movements in the battle.

    He never told me the details of what happened as it greatly affected him. Just what Battalion and division he was in. The book is with personnel accounts and detailed information to a level I have not seen yet in a book about the biggest last battle with the Japanese!!! This battle should never be forgotten or overshadowed by Iwo Jima or even Normandy as it is in history because of Rossevelt's death in the last days of the battle for Okinawa!!! The reason was the taking of Okinawa showed up on page two of the papers when Roosevelt died at the time.

    They need to make a movie about Okinawa!! Unbelievable what this "Greatest Generation" did. If you don't feel a tremendous sense of honor and gratitude to the Corps after reading this book, you are hopeless.

    Customer reviews

    Day with 3rd Bn, 12th Marines, mentally walking that hallowed ground, living in Makimanado housing, and Knowing the history of Sugarloaf Hill and what Corporal Day did, brings the heroism and sacrifice of my brother Marines so sharply back in focus. The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill. It took 11 tries during a day period and ate up most of three regiments before the hill was taken. I have read a lot of military history, but this had the same effect as reading about Verdun or Stalingrad. Share your thoughts with other customers. As the Marines struggled uphill, Japanese snipers fired from cave mouths, narrow spider holes and behind boulders.

    On par with The Old Breed. Using historical records of 6th Marine Div, many interviews and other primary and secondary sources, the author reenacts a battle so horrible it defys imagination. This book is a tribute to all the brave men who fought on that island. The Japanese forces would be deployed along three major defense lines. A little further north the main defense line called the Shurri Line consists of Sugar Loaf in the west, Shuri Castle in the center and Conical Hill in the east.

    After the introduction, the author delivers a brief overview of the landings and the dispositions of the four divisions and the gains made for the first month. Its not until 6th MarDiv secured Motobu Peninsula to the north and is then inserted into the Shurri line not far from Sugar Loaf that the narrative becomes almost exclusively 6th Marine Division. The description of the fanatical defense with its many suicidal bombers and the horror that the marines went through in those 10 days of May is incredible.

    Membership

    The author does a good job of describing the terrain including the two supporting hills, one on each side of Sugar Loaf that made it so impossible to take. The marines finally figured out that to take one hill , all the hills had to be taken and thats how it was done. There is only one minor complaint and it concerns the controversey of General Buckner's obstinate refusal of additional help from the 2nd Marines.

    1. Anatomy and Physiology Quick Review for Premed Student (Quick Review Notes).
    2. Noelani!
    3. .
    4. Teaching Readers of English: Students, Texts, and Contexts?
    5. bahana-line.com: Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill: James H. Hallas?
    6. Grandpas Adventures.

    With thousands of his people dying and making very little progress and with pressure from all sides to change tactics, Buckner refuses and continues to slug it out with a frontal attack. The author mentions this event but doesn't expound or shed new light on it nor does he commit his thoughts on the topic. It would have been nice to hear his views on it. I grant that an impromptu amphibious landing would be difficult but not impossible and it would have prevented Ushijima from consolidating his forces on the Shurri Line, making it easier for 6th Marines to break through.

    Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill by James H. Hallas

    The last chapter gives the cost of the campaign with the author stating that with the high cost of taking these islands, these brave warriors should never be forgotten. Even before going very far into the book, you can tell the author had spent much time in accumulating a wealth of first hand information in order to be able to deliver so much action. This is confirmed with you peruse the Source list. If you're a Okinawa Buff, this is a "must have" story for your collection for it delivers more battlefield action and bravery in this important sector than any other book on the market and it will complement anything that you might already have.