A Close Encounter: The Marine Landing On Tinian by Richard Harwood | Full Audio Book

A Close Encounter: The Marine Landing On Tinian by Richard Harwood (1926 - 2001)
Genre(s): War & Military

Read by: Aaron Bennett in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Chapter 1 - A Close Encounter: The Marine Landing On Tinian; Sidebar - Selection of White Beach
00:09:40 - 02 - Chapter 2 - The Landing Force: Who, Where, When; Sidebar - General Clifton B. Cates, USMC
00:21:28 - 03 - Chapter 3 - Jig Day: Feint and Landing; Sidebar - Napalm: Something New in the Arsenal
00:31:01 - 04 - Chapter 4 - The Landing; Sidebar - Aerial Reconnaissance and Photography
00:42:28 - 05 - Chapter 5 - Tinian Defense Forces; Preparatory Strikes
00:59:50 - 06 - Chapter 6 - Counterattack
01:11:14 - 07 - Chapter 7 - The Drive South
01:22:38 - 08 - Chapter 8 - Final Days
01:37:25 - 09 - Chapter 9 - Aftermath; Sidebar - Medal of Honor Recipients

Three weeks into the battle for Saipan, there was no doubt about the outcome and V Amphibious Corps (VAC) commanders began turning their attention to the next objective - the island of Tinian, clearly visible three miles off Saipan's southwest coast. Its garrison of 9,000 Japanese army and navy combatants, many of them veterans of the campaigns in Manchuria, had been bombarded for seven weeks by U.S. air and sea armadas, joined in late June by massed Marine Corps and Army artillery battalions on Saipan's southern coast. The 2d and 4th Marine Divisions, both still in the thick of the Saipan fight, had been selected for the assault mission. - Summary by Richard Harwood