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Lieut. General John B. Coulter, 59, deputy com mander of the Eighth Army: West Texas Military Academy, 1911; cavalry lieutenant on Mexican bor der, 1916; aide to commanding general of 42nd Divi sion in World War I; commander, 85th Division in Italy, World War II; commander, XXIV Corps occupying Korea, 1948; commander, I Corps 1949-50; returned to Korea last August as the late General Walton Walker's troubleshooter-in-chief, later became commander of IX Corps...
...division fought its last and most important battle on Okinawa, which was to become the base for the B-29s' final murderous raids on Japan. At Okinawa, the division was no longer alone-it was part of an amphibious force with the 6th Marine Division and the XXIV Army Corps. By V-E day, the 1st had won 19 Congressional Medals of Honor, 71 Navy Crosses and a large number of other honors, including 18,337 Purple Hearts...
...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 the conquest...
...been killed, 1,353 captured (U.S. losses: 10,221 killed and missing, 27,704 wounded). Some 20,000 to 30,000 defenders, still alive, might try to hold two possible lines across the island or split into hedgehogs on the German model. Said Major General John R. Hodge, XXIV Army Corps commander: "I think we've got them...
...their foxholes, as a "thunderous preliminary bombardment by warships, planes and artillery died down, came Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Corps. On the right the 27th Division reached for the Machinate air strip. In the center the 96th Division moved into the heart of the ridge defenses toward Shuri and its moated fortifications. On the left the 7th Division drove along the east coast toward the Yonabaru air strip...