Word: ryukyus
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Northward in the Ryukyus, the ladder of islands stretching from Formosa to Japan, steamed Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet, working in small units, striking here, there, everywhere. In the southern Ryukyus the British Pacific Fleet, working with U.S. Pacific forces for the first time, struck at the Sakishima island group...
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...
...Pacific Fleet were on the rampage again. Presumably still operating as Task Force 58, under Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, they appeared defiantly this week southeast of Kyushu Island, where they were ringed about by enemy bases in the Izu Islands, in Japan proper and in the Ryukyus. If the Jap Navy-or that part of it has been repaired-wanted a fight, it could have...
Bombs on a Bridge. Now the target was the sensitive Ryukyus, the 55-island bridge linking Formosa to Japan's main islands. From the carriers of Task Force 58 Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher hurled a Jap-estimated 600 planes at these islands. They roared out of the sky in the early morning and hammered all through the day at six of the islands...
...Tokyo (615 miles away). The only thing the Japs can be sure of is that their home islands, soon to be mapped in detail by U.S. photo-interpreters, are the eventual objective. They cannot be sure whether the assault troops will come direct, or by way of the Kurils, Ryukyus, China or Korea. They cannot be strong at every point of possible attack. They can either spread their forces thin or concentrate them at the likeliest points. Either way, U.S. photoplanes will tell Fleet Admiral Nimitz what the dispositions...