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...planners expected the Japanese to defend the home islands by tactics similar to those used at Okinawa: no defense on the beach, retreat to strong positions, last-ditch defenses. The Japanese, however, still tried desperately to find a means to stop massed amphibious assaults at the water's edge. When the Marines were fighting on Iwo Jima, the high command pressed for development of an anti-landing craft weapon suitable for cheap, quick mass production. The fukuryus were the result...
...Pryor of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission in Japan. He ruefully admitted that the new weapon might not have been decisive, but the Japanese had hoped they would cause as much damage as the Kamikazes (suicide planes), which accounted for 80% of the 223 U.S. ships damaged during the Okinawa campaign...
...very different kind of book on the same general subject is Robert Sherrod's On to Westward. As a TIME correspondent, Sherrod followed the war in the Central Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa. The tragic Tarawa victory he described in a superb piece of war reporting, Tarawa (TIME, March 13, 1944). In On to Westward he reports the road to victory from Saipan to Okinawa. This book is a memorable day-to-day account of the high points-Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Ryukyus-in the bitter 3,500-mile battle that led from Tarawa to Tokyo...
Although the Government Department claims no battle-scarred veterans of Normandy and Okinawa among members of its permanent staff, a majority of its men have served in important positions during the war. Not until next fall, when Rupert Emerson '22 and Bruce C. Hopper '24, associate professors of Government. are expected to resume their duties in the University, will the department return to its peacetime normal...
Shepherd's Sixth. The other arm of Rockey's Corps, the 6th Division, was dumped into Tsingtao* under command of Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., stocky, energetic veteran whose great hobby is swimming under water to spear fish. His 6th had undergone its worst ordeal on Okinawa, at Sugar Loaf Hill-one of the decisive local battles...