Download Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima AudioBook Free
In 1944, the U.S. Marines were building the 5th Sea Division - also called "The Spearhead" - in prep for the invasion of the small, Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima. . . When Chuck Tatum began Marine boot camp, he was simply a smart-aleck teenager wanting to provide his country. Little does he know that he would be training under a living story of the Corps - Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone, who acquired almost single-handedly fought off a Japanese pressure of three thousand on Guadalcanal. It was from Basilone and other sergeants that Tatum would understand how to fight such as a Marine and act like a man - skills he would need when he struck the black fine sand of Iwo Jima with thirty thousand other Marines. Red Blood, Dark colored Fine sand is the storyplot of Chuck's two weeks in hell, where he would watch his hero, Basilone, fall season, where the opponent stalked the night, where snipers haunted the day, and where Chuck would see his friends whittled away within an eardrum-shattering, earth-shaking, meats grinder of an battle. This is the island, the heroes, and the tragedy of Iwo Jima, through the eye of the battle's greatest living storyteller, Chuck Tatum.
