Word: okinawa
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...fresh daylight on Okinawa. Officers and men of the amphibious fleet were at breakfast when the broadcast told them. By noon the news was known to the men at the front, at the far sharp edge of the world's struggle. With no time for grief, they went on with their work; but there, while they worked, many a soldier wept...
...Kakazu Ridge, a miserable little 300-ft. fold in the earth just north of Naha, U.S. Tenth Army infantrymen found out for sure what they had suspected all along: Okinawa would come high...
Last week Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported "desperate, suicidal" Japanese air attacks on U.S. ships near Okinawa by a "special attack corps." Thus the Pacific fleet boss lifted secrecy from an enemy tactic that had been a tabooed topic (and a source of endless scuttlebutt) since the Leyte campaign...
Land & Sea. Off shore, U.S. warships hurled great projectiles into the Japanese positions. And always over the beaches came the supplies. The Japs sent land-based aircraft against the ships. In one day 242 were shot down. To soften the enemy's air attacks on Okinawa Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58 steamed into Japanese waters, struck at Kyushu, destroyed 368 enemy planes in four days...
Good Planes, Good Pilots. Last week off Okinawa Kamikaze planes attacked in groups of two to six. Most of them were shot out of the air before they got close to their targets. One fell into the sea only 200 yards from the amphibious operations flagship carrying Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner and Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner. In one day of flaming air action the Japs lost 118 planes...