Descent into hell: civilian memories of the Battle of Okinawa
In 1983, concerned about the need to record and explain the experiences of Okinawans caught up in Battle of Okinawa, the local Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper carried out several hundred interviews with survivors. With explanatory comment added, this was published first in serial form, then later as a book....
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| Zusammenfassung: | In 1983, concerned about the need to record and explain the experiences of Okinawans caught up in Battle of Okinawa, the local Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper carried out several hundred interviews with survivors. With explanatory comment added, this was published first in serial form, then later as a book. Tens of thousands of Okinawans were killed in the relentless bombardment by American forces, ten of thousands more local recruits died in Home Guard units, thousands of starvation and malaria in places away from the fighting, hundreds of young students died in the Blood and Iron Student Corps or as nurse's aides tending to wounded soldiers in hospital caves, and hundreds of evacuees lost their lives in ships sunk by U.S. submarines or aircraft. There were even people who took their own lives, or the lives of loved ones, to avoid what they had been told by the Japanese Army would be a far worse fate at the hands of American captors. Descent into Hell is the story of this apocalyptic struggle as told by those Okinawans who survived |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-485) Introduction: The battle of Okinawa / by Ota Masahide -- chapter 1. The Sound of Army Boots Rings Out on the Cobblestones of Shuri -- chapter 2. Education -- chapter 3. Evacuation -- chapter 4. Compulsory Mass Suicide -- chapter 5. Student Soldiers -- chapter 6. List of Postwar Accidents Involving Unexploded Ordnance -- chapter 7. Excesses Committed by the Imperial Japanese Army -- chapter 8. 8 How Strategic Decisions in the Battle of Okinawa Affected Civilians -- chapter 9. Nurse Aides During the Battle of Okinawa -- chapter 10. Malaria and Starvation -- chapter 11. Internment Camps -- chapter 12. Kyosei Renko: Forced Migration of Korean Citizens to Help Japan's War Effort -- chapter 13. American Excesses -- chapter 14. Psychological Impact |
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Contents
Foreword by
Higa Tatsuro
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Translators' Note
xiii
Introduction: The Battle of Okinawa by Ota Masahide
xv
Maps
xx
Overview of the Okinawa Region xx-xxi
Okinawa
xxii
Southern Okinawa
xxiii
Southern Islands
xxiv
Kerama Islands
xxv
Chapter
1—
The Sound of Army Boots Rings Out on the Cobblestones of Shuri
1
Chapter
2—
Education
3
Department of Internal Affairs Education Section
5
Building of fortifications commences
14
Chapter
3—
Evacuation
16
Measures to evacuate civilians
19
Command Post at Tsukazan
21
Banquet on the evening before the
10
October
1944
air raid
23
More than
1,100
Students die in the name of "National Defense"
25
Military education teacher's memories
27
Chapter
4—
Compulsory Mass Suicide
31
Compulsory mass suicide in the Kerama Islands
33
Induction ceremony
40
The landings
41
Defensive fortifications in Ginowan
44
Chapter
5—
Student Soldiers
46
Okinawa Prefectural First Middle School Blood and Iron Student Corps
46
Agriculture and Forestry School Blood and Iron Student Corps
64
No.
1
Surgery Unit nurse
78
Nurses with the 62nd Infantry Division
81
Special Student Unit
85
ChihayaUnit
87
Ryukon Shelter
90
Contents
Kunii
Hill
Shelter
91
Fortification Construction Unit
94
Prefectural Technical High School Student Unit
96
Normal School Infiltration Squad
103
Kainan Middle School Signals Unit
113
Third Prefectural Middle School Signals Unit Code Section
126
Second Prefectural Middle School Signals Unit Wireless Section
139
Okinawa Fisheries School teachers
154
Fifteen-year-ol
d
signal man
159
Laborers from Korea
169
Communications blocked
170
Yamashiro family wiped out
171
Takaishiburi serves as a headstone
173
Unexploded ordnance
17
A
Unexploded ordnance in Tomigusuku
181
Chapter
6—
List of Postwar Accidents Involving Unexploded Ordnance
184
Fierce fighting in the Urasoe area
185
Infiltration squads
192
Husband killed in battle
193
Kamiya
Kinie
196
Shuri Castle
199
32nd Army Command Post at Shuri
200
Life in the Command Post Shelter
201
Women in the Command Post Shelter
203
Observation Post in Shuri Castle
204
5th Artillery Command Post Shelter
205
62nd Division engineers
206
Chapter
7—
Excesses Committed by the Imperial Japanese Army
208
Execution of a "spy"
209
Fires on the battlefield
210
Shuri Castle burned to the ground
214
Last days of a Shuri Girls' School teacher
215
Chapter
8—
How Strategic Decisions in the Battle of Okinawa AfFected Civilians
219
Choice of strategy
222
Imperial Headquarters' focus switches to final showdown
on the main islands
224
From decisive struggle aimed at victory to battle of attrition
226
Retreat
227
Tsuken-jima
—
Arakawa Castle Shelter
228
Maezato in Itoman
232
Yamane Units Medical Shelter
236
Commanding officers of the 32nd Army
241
VI
Contents
Home Guard
243
Home Guard on Ie-Jima
246
Ie-jima Women's Cooperative Unit
251
Nageera Cave
253
Nunumachi-gama
261
44th Independent Mixed Brigade Engineers Shelter
267
14th Independent Infantry Battalion of the 62nd Division
269
Uŕugusukumui
Shelter
271
Arakaki Shelter
273
Cave at Tahara
278
Kohatsu in Nishihara
279
American POWS
280
Letters sent to evacuated family members
283
Chapter
9—
Nurse Aides During the Battle of Okinawa
298
Sekkoku Girls' School
300
Showa Girls' School
308
Nurses at No.
3
Surgery Unit
315
Haebaru Army Hospital
322
Young girl flees with mother
323
Schoolgirls' group suicide
330
Okinawa Region Weather Observatory
341
Command Post in Mabuni
356
Stranded on the Senkaku Islands
373
Forced Out by Japanese soldiers
385
Countless bodies at Giizabanta
388
32nd Army falls apart
390
Call for surrender
393
Chapter
10—
Malaria and Starvation
396
Taken prisoner in June
1945 397
Communal graves in
Nago
400
Name tag given by father is found four decades later
405
Only two out of family of thirteen survive
406
Only one survives
410
Family wiped out
421
Chapter
11—
Internment Camps
423
Remains found of a mother holding a baby
423
Remains found in a thicket of lead trees
425
Search for the location where father died
427
Compiling a list of war dead
430
Chapter
12—
Kyosei
Renko
—
Forced Migration of Korean Citizens to Help
Japans War
EŕFort
432
Vil
Contents
Koreans killed in the Battle
433
Tears shed on meeting after thirty-nine years
435
Meeting thirty-nine years after
10
October
1944
air raid
437
Memorials in Komesu
439
After the Battle, civilians secure food and timber supplies from
the former Command Post
441
Letters sent to family
442
Farewell letters recovered
444
Chapter
13—
American Excesses
453
Ruins of the U.S. army field hospital in Ginoza
455
Nagatohara communal grave
462
Burial at Nakaoji in
Nago
463
Okinawa Shimpo newspaper
464
Survivors of the 89th Infantry Regiment come to collect bones
468
Chapter
14—
Psychological Impact
472
Timeline for the Period Leading Up to the Battle of Okinawa
475
References
483
About the Translators
486
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| spelling | Shōgen Okinawa sen Descent into hell civilian memories of the Battle of Okinawa Ryukyu Shimpo. Foreword by Higa Tatsuro. Introduction by Ota Masahide. Transl. with extensive commentary by Mark Ealey & Alastair McLauchlan Ryūkyū shimpō Portland, ME Merwin Asia 2014 XXV, 486 S. Kt. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-485) Introduction: The battle of Okinawa / by Ota Masahide -- chapter 1. The Sound of Army Boots Rings Out on the Cobblestones of Shuri -- chapter 2. Education -- chapter 3. Evacuation -- chapter 4. Compulsory Mass Suicide -- chapter 5. Student Soldiers -- chapter 6. List of Postwar Accidents Involving Unexploded Ordnance -- chapter 7. Excesses Committed by the Imperial Japanese Army -- chapter 8. 8 How Strategic Decisions in the Battle of Okinawa Affected Civilians -- chapter 9. Nurse Aides During the Battle of Okinawa -- chapter 10. Malaria and Starvation -- chapter 11. Internment Camps -- chapter 12. Kyosei Renko: Forced Migration of Korean Citizens to Help Japan's War Effort -- chapter 13. American Excesses -- chapter 14. Psychological Impact In 1983, concerned about the need to record and explain the experiences of Okinawans caught up in Battle of Okinawa, the local Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper carried out several hundred interviews with survivors. With explanatory comment added, this was published first in serial form, then later as a book. Tens of thousands of Okinawans were killed in the relentless bombardment by American forces, ten of thousands more local recruits died in Home Guard units, thousands of starvation and malaria in places away from the fighting, hundreds of young students died in the Blood and Iron Student Corps or as nurse's aides tending to wounded soldiers in hospital caves, and hundreds of evacuees lost their lives in ships sunk by U.S. submarines or aircraft. There were even people who took their own lives, or the lives of loved ones, to avoid what they had been told by the Japanese Army would be a far worse fate at the hands of American captors. Descent into Hell is the story of this apocalyptic struggle as told by those Okinawans who survived Geschichte 1945 gnd rswk-swf World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / Japan / Okinawa Island / Personal narratives Civilians in war / Japan / Okinawa Island Weltkrieg (1939-1945) Schlacht um Okinawa (DE-588)4317133-3 gnd rswk-swf Zivilbevölkerung (DE-588)4190984-7 gnd rswk-swf Zweiter Weltkrieg (DE-588)4079167-1 gnd rswk-swf Okinawa (DE-588)4247457-7 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4133254-4 Erlebnisbericht gnd-content Schlacht um Okinawa (DE-588)4317133-3 s Zivilbevölkerung (DE-588)4190984-7 s DE-604 Okinawa (DE-588)4247457-7 g Zweiter Weltkrieg (DE-588)4079167-1 s Geschichte 1945 z Ealey, Mark Sonstige (DE-588)142191736 oth Digitalisierung BSB Muenchen - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=027648849&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| title | Descent into hell civilian memories of the Battle of Okinawa |
| title_alt | Shōgen Okinawa sen Ryūkyū shimpō |
| title_auth | Descent into hell civilian memories of the Battle of Okinawa |
| title_exact_search | Descent into hell civilian memories of the Battle of Okinawa |
| title_full | Descent into hell civilian memories of the Battle of Okinawa Ryukyu Shimpo. Foreword by Higa Tatsuro. Introduction by Ota Masahide. Transl. with extensive commentary by Mark Ealey & Alastair McLauchlan |
| title_fullStr | Descent into hell civilian memories of the Battle of Okinawa Ryukyu Shimpo. Foreword by Higa Tatsuro. Introduction by Ota Masahide. Transl. with extensive commentary by Mark Ealey & Alastair McLauchlan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Descent into hell civilian memories of the Battle of Okinawa Ryukyu Shimpo. Foreword by Higa Tatsuro. Introduction by Ota Masahide. Transl. with extensive commentary by Mark Ealey & Alastair McLauchlan |
| title_short | Descent into hell |
| title_sort | descent into hell civilian memories of the battle of okinawa |
| title_sub | civilian memories of the Battle of Okinawa |
| topic | World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / Japan / Okinawa Island / Personal narratives Civilians in war / Japan / Okinawa Island Weltkrieg (1939-1945) Schlacht um Okinawa (DE-588)4317133-3 gnd Zivilbevölkerung (DE-588)4190984-7 gnd Zweiter Weltkrieg (DE-588)4079167-1 gnd |
| topic_facet | World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / Japan / Okinawa Island / Personal narratives Civilians in war / Japan / Okinawa Island Weltkrieg (1939-1945) Schlacht um Okinawa Zivilbevölkerung Zweiter Weltkrieg Okinawa Erlebnisbericht |
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