Centurion King: [The Battle For Okinawa]

by Clayton Bushnell

Far removed from the Hollywood scene, this is what combat was really like. Starting out with 252 men in our company, there were only 36 of us still alive on the morning of April 27th, 1945. We were ordered to scout the top of the Urasoe-Maeda escarpment. As Chief Sitting Bull said ad the battle of the Little Big Horn - "This is a good day to die." Centurion King was my radio call sign during the Battle for Okinawa. I was one of the lucky ones that survived the war. The fact that I did not die on the escarpment and have lived to tell this story is nothing short of a miracle.

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Frank · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a quick read. It is a first hand account of the battle for Okinawa by a man who was there and saw and experienced it up close and personal, and who was seriously wounded but lived to tell the story.

My Uncle Claude fought in the battle for Okinawa. He only told me a thing or two about it. Then he would say, "That is all you need to know about it." After reading this book, I understand more what he was talking about. My undying admiration for those men and what they went through for us in that (and all other) battles in all wars.

[Courtney · Rating 5 out of 5]

My grandpa wrote this book and though I already knew some of the things he went through during WWII I now have an enormous amount of respect for the things he endured. One incredible story of survival.