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Behind flame-throwing tanks, U.S. Tenth Army troops inched forward. On the west coast the crack, new 6th Marine Division fought its way into the suburbs of Naha. In the center the 1st Marine and 77th Army Divisions pressed closer to Shuri. On the east coast the 96th Army Division captured Conical Hill dominating the Yonabaru airstrip; then doughboys swept ahead to take the airfield itself. Again & again the Japanese came out of mud-filled foxholes and caves to counterattack...
...Okinawa the future moved in on the Japanese, gun in hand. New York's 27th Division, its regiments adding new laurels to laurels won in the Civil War and World War I, captured the northern half of the Machinate airstrip, reached within two and one half miles of Naha, the capital...
...Kakazu Ridge, a miserable little 300-ft. fold in the earth just north of Naha, U.S. Tenth Army infantrymen found out for sure what they had suspected all along: Okinawa would come high...
Right across the island, units were reporting the same kind of resistance. Along the ridge the Japanese had developed an elaborate interconnected system of caves and pillboxes, some of the pillboxes two and three stories deep in the ground. And beyond this ridge was another fortified ridge, from Naha to Yonabaru...
Then suddenly the soldiers saw bodies-and they were not all Japanese bodies. The advancing troops ran into a main defense position, a line drawn across the island just north of Naha. From concrete pillboxes, hillside caves and ravines, murderous machine-gun fire raked their lines. The heaviest concentration of Japanese artillery of the Pacific war backed up the small arms. While marines in the north continued to gain 2,000 and 3,000 yards a day against little opposition, the soldiers were slowed to 200-yard jumps...