Islands of Blood

Forager in the Marianas

Islands of Blood XI: The recapture of Guam and Tinian

Aug 27, 2024 •

Nathan Drescher

The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot

Islands of Blood part X

Jul 25, 2024 •

Nathan Drescher

The Last Banzai: the battle of Saipan (with maps!)

The final banzai charge of WWII was also the largest. Here's the tragic story of the brutal battle of Saipan in 1944.

May 30, 2024 •

Nathan Drescher

Iwo Jima: the forbidden island

This is part VII of the Islands of Blood series

Sep 22, 2022 •

Nathan A Drescher

Divine Winds at Leyte

Part V of Islands of Blood: WWII in the Pacific

Aug 17, 2022 •

Nathan A Drescher

Peleliu: Then and Today

Part IV of Islands of Blood: War in the Pacific

Jun 9, 2022 •

Nathan A Drescher

Islands of Blood IV: Tarawa

The US Marines' first island landing of the war was also one of their bloodiest battles

Dec 21, 2021 •

Nathan A Drescher

Islands of Blood III: Guadalcanal

The first land battle between Japan and the US was on a little-known jungle island in the Solomon Islands, called Guadalcanal.

Nov 24, 2021 •

Nathan A Drescher

Islands of Blood Pt II: December 7th 1941

Japanese power exploded across the Pacific on a single day: December 7 1941

Oct 21, 2021 •

Nathan A Drescher

Islands of Blood 1: Bookends

World War Two ended on August 15, 1945, but Japan's Empire began 80 years earlier with the Meiji Restoration

Sep 16, 2021 •

Nathan A Drescher

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