LeMay's Inferno: Part Two: Island Hopping
Download MP3As the B-29s bombing Japan from China and the Marianas formed one pincer of the Allied offensive on Japan, so too did General Douglas MacArthur's 6th Army and Admiral Chester Nimitz's Pacific Fleet. Join us in episode two of LeMay's Inferno as we discuss MacArthur's return to the Philippines, the largest naval battle in human history, and the U.S. Marine Corps' finest hour on a barren rock in the Pacific: Iwo Jima.