Word: yaeju
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...last Japanese defense line on south ern Okinawa, along the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, was no more. A handful of ene my troops had manned its deep caves, hid den artillery and automatic weapons for a few days; then U.S. weight and power col lapsed them...
...Yaeju Peak itself, a 560-ft. knob which doughboys dubbed "the Big Apple," was first scaled at night by Company K of the 381st Infantry (96th Division). Explosive charges sealed off a number of caves, but Company K was forced to retire. Before noon the next day, U.S. artillery and mor tars took more bites out of the Big Apple, and Companies I and L tried the ascent...
...From Yaeju, the 383rd Infantry jumped off and took Yuza Peak. To the east, the 7th Division was battling for a summit 502 feet high when the enemy gave an assist. Jap artillery shelled Jap troops at the top. When the error was dis covered, and the fire lifted, the Japs on the peak were stunned and the 7th Division veterans were able to swarm all over them...
...pressed into a minute fraction of the island's area - no more than 20 of its 485 sq. mi.- and U.S. ground forces called for fire support from the fleet's guns to soften another stubborn line, the last on which the enemy could stand. Along the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, 3,000 yds. long, 600 ft. high, including a 300-ft. cliff, perhaps half of the 15,000 or so surviving Japanese were dug in. They had scores of fortified caves, from each of which they would have to be burned by flamethrowers or blasted by grenades...
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