Download Hell Is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific - Saipan to Guam, June to August 1944 AudioBook Free

June 14, 1944, just nine days and nights after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, another mighty fleet steamed towards its D-Day landing. A huge U.S. flotilla of 800 ships having 162,000 men was about to try to smash into the external defenses of japan Empire. Their target was the Marianas Island group, which included Saipan, home to a important Japanese platform and a huge human population of Japanese civilians, and Guam, the first American place captured in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Through the next eight weeks, tens of thousands of men, a huge selection of airplanes, and a large number of major warships were locked in mortal fight. When it was over, 60,000 Japanese ground troops and the majority of the carrier air electricity of the Imperial Navy were annihilated; Japan's leader, Tojo, was trashed of office in disgrace; and the recently captured foe airfields were being altered into starting bases for the B-29s that would carry the traditional and, later, atomic bombs to Japan, turning the land of the Rising Sun into a charred cinder. After the U.S. victory in the Marianas marketing campaign, the street to Tokyo was clearly in sight.