Operation Iceberg

Here is a unique recreation of one of the century's most decisive battles - the terrible, four-month conflict that preceded by a scant eight weeks the Japanese surrender on V-J Day. Operation Iceberg, as it was known, saw the fiercest attacks of kamikazes in the entire Pacific Theater of War. The U.S. fleet suffered 34 ships sunk, 368 damaged, 5,000 sailors killed and 5,000 more wounded. Before it was over 7,700 American soldiers were killed and 31,800 were wounded until the Japanese, with a garrison of 100,000, finally surrendered. In Operation Iceberg Gerald Astor draws on the raw…