Название: Their Backs against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II
Автор: Bill Sloan
Издательство: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 030682471X
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 304
Размер: 9,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.