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...western Pacific U.S. forces stormed into the key Ryukyu Islands, less than 400 miles from Japan's heartland, against opposition which was, at least in the beginning, fantastically light. Ice-calm Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz relaxed his studied reserve enough to admit: "Our final decisive victory is assured...
...there was little serious expectation that Okinawa would come cheap. The island was too important a strategical prize for that. If it were lost, said the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri-Hochi, Japan would have "no hope of turning the course of the war." Here Nippon must fight. And from Admiral Nimitz' headquarters, as the campaign went into its third day, came reports of rising resistance...
...five months, since the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Japanese had been busy repairing damaged warships. Soon, although their fleet had been permanently pared down, they might have enough patched-up battleships and carriers to offer a sizable threat to Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' extending operations in the far western Pacific. Something had to be done...
...Japan's home waters Nimitz sent his mighty Fifth Fleet, under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. The carriers cruised (by Jap admission) within 60 miles of Shikoku. Still the enemy fleet skulked in its bases...
...Neither of these flag raisings was official: last week, when Admiral Nimitz formally took possession of the island, the U.S. flag was run up near the base of Suribachi with traditional ceremony...