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...veterans of Guadalcanal are still with the ist. Their casualties have equalled almost an entire division. Last week the ist was taking more casualties on Okinawa, 3,350 miles from Henderson Field, only 960 miles from Tokyo. It still had the same twofold mission-take the objective, kill the Japs...
...battle raged with parallel violence in the sea and sky around Okinawa. Since March 18 Japan had lost more than 3,168 planes in almost continuous attacks, many of them by Kamikaze suicide pilots, upon the fleets supplying and protecting the Tenth Army. That was a high rate of loss: best estimates placed Japanese plane production, before the 6-295 began hammering the aircraft factories, at from 1,200 to 1,500 a month...
Total U.S. casualties on Okinawa have reached 23,188, of whom 3,877 are dead and 2,611 missing. At sea at least 25 ships, most of them light units, have been sunk; many more, including some major units, have been damaged. "We will take our time," said the Tenth's Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., "and kill the Japanese gradually." Meanwhile the ship-plane battle went on. Admiral Nimitz's communique announced that a major warship had been damaged during an air attack...
...Emperor. In this sense, the great U.S. military redeployment from West to East was aimed directly at the myth of the divine Mikado, ruling a divine nation on the warpath. Grimy U.S. soldiers and marines who were last week digging out their diehard enemy from the caverns of Okinawa and Luzon were just as surely digging out this myth from the dark corners of the Japanese mind...
...bravest man-of-the-week on Okinawa-at least to the 77th Infantry Division-was a conscientious objector: Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, 26, Medical Corpsman and Seventh-day Adventist...