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...other side of the Pacific Bob Sherrod went in with the doughboys and Marines who found the beaches of Okinawa so strangely deserted. It was "the kind of landing every correspondent who knows the Marines wanted to cover-particularly those of us who had been at Iwo Jima. This was the finest start of a battle our Marines and soldiers could hope for" (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...Pacific, with the landings on Okinawa, the U.S. juggernaut moved within 400 miles of the Jap mainland...
...continued, Kawacuchi, a corpsman in a division hospital, made daily entries in his diary. He recorded, as well as it has been done anywhere, the strange mixture of animal courage and fatalism which motivates the U.S. enemy in the Pacific. This week, as a still greater Jap garrison on Okinawa felt the weight of U.S. arms, the Office of Censorship released Kawacuchi's diary [which had been found by a U.S. Naval officer]. Excerpts...
...Okinawa, along with the easy landing, came another surprise. Civilians began filtering through the lines. They seemed the most miserable people on earth, averaging no more than five feet in height, undernourished beyond description...
Spruance and Mitscher turned south to hammer the central Ryukyus. Main target was Okinawa, 60 miles long and up to 16 miles wide. The weather was bad, but Navy airmen hunted through the overcast for Jap airfields, arsenals and shipping...