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Marine Lieut. General Roy S. Geiger quoted a captured Japanese captain: "The overwhelming equipment and fighting spirit of the Americans are such that any Japanese who thought he had a chance to win this war was just a plain, damned fool...
...units had surged forward from their beachheads against a scattered, disorganized resistance, swiftly capturing more than a fourth of the 60-mile-long island. Under Major General Roy S. Geiger, the leathernecks of the III Marine Amphibious Corps had pressed north, reached through the Ishikawa Isthmus to the neighborhood of Kin. Under Major General John R. Hodge, the doughboys of the XXIV Army Corps had moved south toward Naha, the island's capital...
...troops of his new Tenth Army swarming ashore. Marines and soldiers fought side by side in this army, as they had in World War I's famed 2nd Division. Comprising the army were Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Army Corps and Major General Roy S. Geiger's III Marine Amphibious Corps...
...Nimitz gave an idea of the method to be used. It will be continuous blows of Nimitz' mighty Central Pacific forces -two complete teams: the Third Fleet under Admiral Halsey, with the Third Amphibious Group under Rear Admiral Conolly and the III Amphibious Corps under Major General Geiger; the Fifth Fleet under Admiral Spruance, with the Fifth Amphibious Group under Rear Admiral Hill and the V Amphibious Corps under Major General Schmidt...
Thus last week the liberated area of Guam signalized its return to U.S. possession. Two days later. Major General Roy S. Geiger, commanding the Amphibious III Corps, added formality to fact by running up the Stars & Stripes at his headquarters on the island 3,800 miles west of Pearl Harbor, proclaiming U.S. military government in effect...