Word: okinawa
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...spite of their huge losses at the beginning of the Okinawa campaign, the Japs still spent planes and pilots recklessly, throwing everything in their air book at the Americans. Observers counted more than 15 types of aircraft in the buzzing swarms, even the slow, clumsy "Mary" bombers that had been obsolete since the earliest days...
...everything in their own book at the Japs-and one thing that was never in the book for the big B-29 bombers. For the first time, but probably not the last, the long-range Superfortresses did a chore of close-up tactical bombing in direct support of the Okinawa operations. Four times in six days, large forces of them ranged far & wide over Japan's home island of Kyushu, hammering airfields from medium altitude...
...Okinawa, pilots of the 2nd Marine Air Wing took off to intercept a Japanese attacking force. Three of them-Major George C. Axtell Jr., of Baden, Pa., Major Jefferson Davis Dorrah, Hood River, Ore., and First Lieut. Jeremiah J. O'Keefe, Biloxi, Miss.-were flying into their first combat. When they landed again, all three were aces. Their joint score: 16 Japs shot down, two probables...
...yard battleline across southern Okinawa had not changed position in 13 days. Ahead lay a Japanese army 50,000 strong, entrenched on rows of spiny ridges, each one a maze of log bunkers, concrete pillboxes, caves and tunnels. Patiently the Tenth Army's Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. had waited until the Navy built up his supply dumps. Then he was ready...
Elsewhere things were going well for the Tenth. Marines of the III Amphibious Corps reached the northern end of Okinawa and cleared the last resistance pockets on Motobu peninsula. Units of the 77th Division landed on nearby le (pronounced ee-eh), seized a big airfield and secured the island...