Word: nahas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symbol on a Hill. General Sheetz and his staff, who are now engaged in the first organized effort in four years to cope with Okinawa's problems, are recruiting a force of 60 to 80 planners to act as a kind of junior SCAP for Okinawa. At Naha, where in May 1945 U.S. forces encountered some of the invasion's stiffest Japanese resistance, U.S. engineers are busy with plans to rebuild the battered port, talk of a new one capable of taking the Pacific's biggest ships. On the broad runways of Naha airport, rows...
...ever, the Japanese were relying on hopeless stratagems. With a group of seven soldiers, killed while trying to infiltrate Marine lines south of Naha, were two women, each armed with hand grenades...
...Naha field, best air base on Okinawa, had been captured by the 4th Marines under husky, soft-voiced Colonel Alan Shapley, former Annapolis football star...
Tenth Army troops poured in through the cracked Shuri line. Shuri village, taken next day, was found to be a "stinking 120-acre mass of ruins." Most of Naha, the island capital, which had been cleaned up before Shuri by the 6th Marine Division, was equally deserted and flattened...
Final Phase? As the weather began to clear, U.S. troops plowed on to the next and perhaps final phase of the battle for Okinawa. In a quick amphibious maneuver, the Marines reached around the enemy's lines beyond the city, fought their way onto Naha airfield, largest in the Ryukus. Army troops on the east turned to free Baten Harbor. This week the 7th Infantry Division cut off the Chinen Peninsula in one of the swiftest advances of the campaign. Ahead lay flat, open land where the Japanese had little chance for effective defense...