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...Pacific, with the landings on Okinawa, the U.S. juggernaut moved within 400 miles of the Jap mainland...
...merciless U.S. advance continued, Kawacuchi, a corpsman in a division hospital, made daily entries in his diary. He recorded, as well as it has been done anywhere, the strange mixture of animal courage and fatalism which motivates the U.S. enemy in the Pacific. This week, as a still greater Jap garrison on Okinawa felt the weight of U.S. arms, the Office of Censorship released Kawacuchi's diary [which had been found by a U.S. Naval officer]. Excerpts...
...Sank, according to King, at least two Jap carriers, three battleships, eight cruisers, 20 destroyers, damaged many more. (Other Navy estimates: seven carriers, 21 cruisers, 52 destroyers; plus more than 6,000 planes destroyed.) U.S. losses in the same period in the Pacific listed by King: five carriers, seven destroyers, two destroyer escorts; plus (according to other Navy sources) 1,147 planes...
...general attitude of the Americans was reflected by Lieutenant Lawrence Bangser, veteran Marine raider: "Either this Jap general is the world's greatest tactician or the world's most stupid man." Before noon on L-day (Loveday in the voice signal alphabet), the Jap general had lost Okinawa beyond reprieve. The tanks had arrived, the artillery was arriving to augment the planes and naval gunfire. The fleet's big guns had not been necessary in the immediate sense of killing Japs, but they had perhaps discouraged the halfhearted Jap general...
Easter Eggs? There will undoubtedly be hard fighting here. Jap discouragement has yet to reach the point of refusal to fight. But the strange little men lost their best chance of killing a lot of Americans when their general decided not to defend the west beaches. Perhaps the Jap commander was so certain that we would land on the east or south that he put all his eggs in eastern or southern baskets. His pillboxes on the western beaches were jerry-built of scrub-pine logs, lightly covered with sand and coral. Only a few bursts were fired from...