S1·E7 – April 1-April 7: The Invasion of Okinawa
2005-04-01 • 42 min
By the first week of April, 1944, tensions among the Allies were heating up. When Eisenhower decided to stop his advance at Elbe River, it let the Soviets take Berlin. In Bavaria, forces headed toward what they thought would be a Nazi final stand. And half a world away, men and machinery geared up for "Operation Iceberg," the Battle for Okinawa. 172,000 troops would meet staunch opposition from the island's fanatical Japanese defenders.
Cast
Greg Stebner
Narrator
Max Hastings
Self - Author, 'Armageddon'
Kerry Smith
Self - Professor, Brown University
Gregory J.W. Urwin
SelfSelf - Professor, Temple University
William Atwater
Self - Curator, US Army Ordnance Museum
Alan Brinkley
Self - Professor, Columbia University
Omer Bartov
Self - Professor, Brown University
Donald Dencker
Self - WWII Veteran, Pacific
Richard Rhodes
Self - Author, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb'
James Sheehan
Self - Professor, Stanford University