Word: yonabaru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were the Japanese more successful in the land fighting. While rain turned the ground into watery, reddish mud, and stalled virtually all transportation but weasels (tracked jeeps), U.S. troops wormed gradually around the Japanese defense line in the south. In the east infantrymen captured the seaport village of Yonabaru and swept on in a flanking drive. The Japs withdrew hastily, for the first time abandoning large supply dumps intact. On the west marines secured Sugar Loaf and Half Moon Hills, at week's end held half of Naha...
...mound, was another tough obstacle on the way to Shuri. For six days the 77th Infantry Division fought seesaw battles for the top, and finally won it. The Japs also counterattacked Conical Hill and clung to positions on the south slope, barring access to the west coast port of Yonabaru. On the east coast, Marine patrols found Naha a stinking, corpse-littered ruin...
...Army troops inched forward. On the west coast the crack, new 6th Marine Division fought its way into the suburbs of Naha. In the center the 1st Marine and 77th Army Divisions pressed closer to Shuri. On the east coast the 96th Army Division captured Conical Hill dominating the Yonabaru airstrip; then doughboys swept ahead to take the airfield itself. Again & again the Japanese came out of mud-filled foxholes and caves to counterattack...
...96th Division, in the center of the line, fought its way atop and over "Skyline Ridge" dominating the field. The 7th Division, on the left, pressed toward the Yonabaru airstrip...
...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...