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Here's what Ken Burns says: “In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge’s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war." |
Stay off the Skyline: The Sixth Marine Division on Okinawa: An Oral History |
The sights, sounds, smell and taste of the Battle of Okinawa, from the men who fought it. Sixth Marine Division Historian Laura Lacey, captures the stories of the Sixth Division Marines who were there. This book is not always easy to read, but it's a fascinating portrayal of a fierce battle that, as Lacey points out, has not received the attention from historians that it warrants. |
The War in the Pacific: Okinawa: The Last Battle
(United States Army in World War II) |
Published in 1947, this is one of the Army's "Green Book" series. A very detailed study of the battle of Okinawa, it concentrates on the land battles of the Army and the Marines. Geared for military historians. |
Okinawa: Victory in the Pacific |
Fifteenth in a series of operational monographs prepared by the Historical Branch, G-3 Division, Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, designed to give the military student and casual reader an accurate and detailed account of the operations of the Marines in World War II. The book reviews the planning, preparation and execution of the war by the Marine Corps. It includes an excellent set of maps as well as a chronology of the battle, command and staff list, org chart and plenty of photos. Published in 1955. |
The Old Breed: A History of the First Marine Division in World War II |
A riveting account of the war in the Pacific from a front-line Marine in the First Marine Division. |
The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa |
One Marine's story of the invasion of Okinawa. Colonel Alexander, USMC (Ret), served 29 years on active duty as an assault amphibian officer, including two tours in Vietnam and service as Chief of Staff, Third Marine Division, in the Western Pacific. He is a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College and holds degrees in history from North Carolina, Jacksonville, and Georgetown. |
Inferno: The Fall of Japan |
If you had asked a cheering 6th Division Marine on Guam, when the Pacific version of WWII
was pronounced over in August of 1945, if he thought dropping a couple of atomic bombs
to achieve that effect was immoral, he would have thought you were crazy. |
Looking for Eddie |
In 1945, Cpl Edward J. Couchon Jr. of the Sixth Marine Division (22nd Mar-1-C) won the Silver Star and was killed in action on Okinawa. Fifty years later, barely anyone remembered who he was. Norm Schroeder, former Marine, FBI director, and state prosecutor -- and son of one of Cpl Couchon's best friends -- decides to do something about this. His book takes us along on his challenging search for information about Eddie, from his childhood to his heroics on Okinawa. This includes tracking down and interviewing Sixth Division Marines, Andy Sinatra and Bob Mitchell, who knew Cpl Couchon. |
Sgt A.F. "Kelly" Murray USMC,
A Hoosier Hibernian in the Great Pacific War |
The story of Sgt A.F. Murray, Sixth Division Marine -- from San Diego to Okinawa to Tsingtao, to back home in Indiana -- told from letters and photos that his son, Kevin, found in his sea bag after he died in 1978. |