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...Like myself, you are an infantry general long schooled and practised in infantry warfare," wrote Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., to the Japanese commander on Okinawa. "You fully know that no reinforcements can reach you. I believe, therefore, that you understand as clearly as I that the destruction of all Japanese resistance on this island is merely a matter of days, and that this will entail the necessity of my killing the vast majority of your remaining troops. ... I will acquaint [your representatives] with the manner in which an orderly and honorable cessation of hostilities may be arranged...
Hair-trigger critics might profitably bear in mind that the U.S. forces' real troubles on Okinawa came not from the errors of friends, but from the implacable resistance of a fanatical enemy. Even so, with victory in sight, the Okinawa campaign was almost exactly on its original schedule...
...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...
Post Mortem. How long the fleet had been held there, supporting the invasion, had become the subject of rumbling & mumbling in Washington. Homer Bigart, conscientious front-line correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, had kicked off with a dispatch from Okinawa, suggesting that Tenth Army tactics had been ultraconservative, that the campaign might have moved faster if the III Marine Amphibious Corps had been used last month for an end-run landing in the south, behind the Jap lines, instead of being thrown into a power drive at the Shuri line alongside the Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist...
Carry On. On Okinawa, Pfc. David Ward of Miami took time out from soldiering to help a native woman give birth to a son, was rewarded with two eggs...