It’s February 20, 1945 and the United States Marine Corps has bisected the neck of the island of Iwo Jima. In this show, the Japanese will unleash the fearsome kamikaze and we’ll hear from a kamikaze who miraculously survived to tell the tale. Thousands of Navy personnel and hundreds of Japanese pilots won’t be so lucky. Meanwhile, Japanese commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi is decimating the Marines in the beachhead, slamming shell after shell into their positions from heavily fortified strong points, many of them imperceptible to the human eye. The shelling, flamethrowers, and constant bombing reduced the island to a hell-like pit of destruction. The marines are going to have to storm through this hell to attack the Japanese strong points. They said it was like storming hell. And this is their story.
The drink this show is Sake, 3 bullets out of 5.
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Map of Battlefield
References:
Iwo Jima by Bill Ross
Into the Rising Sun edited by Patrick K. O’Donnell
Mishima by John Nathan
I was a Kamikaze by Ryuji Nagatsuka
Reaping the Whirlwind by Nigel Cawthorne
War without Mercy by John W. Dower
Hell in the Pacific by Jim McHenry and Bill Sloan
Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
War at Sea by Marcus Faulkner
The West Point Military Atlas of Modern War edited by Thomas E. Griess
The West Point Military History of The Second World War Asia and Pacific edited by Thomas E. Griess
Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and William Scott Wilson (trans.)
A History of Japan by R. H. P. Mason and J. G. Caiger
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 by John Toland
The Second World War by John Keegan
Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change by Jeff Kingston
Music References:
Powerglove
“Warzone”
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