Death Stand
"To the Best of My Ability"
English - May 20, 2020 19:05 - 24 minutes - 34.2 MBHistory Education fdr museum truman ww2 wwii government history politics presidency Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The war in Europe was over, but fighting raged in the Pacific. “We are only half-through,” Truman declares to the American people. He was right. The Battle of Okinawa (April 1 - June 22) was one of the hardest-fought in the history of the US military. Okinawa is a mass of mountains, jungle, and mud, and the battle generated monstrous casualties on both sides, 93,000 Japanese, 12,000 US, and 140,000 Okinawan civilians. Just days into his presidency, Commander-in-Chief Truman was presiding over a bloodbath.