Word: shuri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reflection of their faith is warming Okinawa's people. On a hill above the southern Okinawa plain lie the ruins of Shuri castle; all that remains of the ancient home of Okinawa's rulers is an iron drinking fountain shaped like a dragon with gaping jaws out of which pours a clear stream of water into a quiet pool. Just above the old castle site stand five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open...
...days on Okinawa the 96th Division had stood stymied before Hen Hill, a knobby 450-ft. crag just northeast of Shuri. Crouching in foxholes, trenches and caves, the Japanese could rake the flanks of any unit attempting to move around the hill. Two battalions had taken turns charging up; both had failed-with heavy casualties...
...Okinawa, suggesting that Tenth Army tactics had been ultraconservative, that the campaign might have moved faster if the III Marine Amphibious Corps had been used last month for an end-run landing in the south, behind the Jap lines, instead of being thrown into a power drive at the Shuri line alongside the Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist David Lawrence picked up the cry and shrilled about the "military fiasco at Okinawa ... a worse example of military incompetence than Pearl Harbor." He blamed the Navy's heavy losses, in ships and men, on the "bungling" which had prolonged...
...personal equipment and set out through the muck. Ascending a narrow ravine they labored 2,000 yards to the shattered walls of the castle, sliding and cursing. Only a few snipers were left to oppose them, and the marines drove into the vital heart of the Japanese Shuri line. Said Major General Pedro A. del Valle, 1st Marine Division commander: "The most astonishing thing is how the hell they got there...
Tenth Army troops poured in through the cracked Shuri line. Shuri village, taken next day, was found to be a "stinking 120-acre mass of ruins." Most of Naha, the island capital, which had been cleaned up before Shuri by the 6th Marine Division, was equally deserted and flattened...