The First Marine Division on Okinawa; 1 April - 30 June 1945 [Illustrated Edition]

Includes 32 maps The History of the 1st Marine Division or the “Old Breed” in the final campaign of the Pacific War. After many brutal struggles against the Japanese army on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Cape Gloucester and Peleliu again, the Old Breed moved out, this time bound for Okinawa, a major island in the Ryukus only 350 miles from the southern Japanese home island of Kyushu. In the largest amphibious assault of World War II, Marine and Army units — among them the First Marine Division —