The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa

On 15 May, Day and his men watched another Marine assault develop from the northeast. Again there were Marines on the eastern crest of the hill, but fully exposed to raking fire...

The Tenth Army’s Action Report for the battle of Okinawa paid this understated compliment to the _Thirty-second Army_’s defensive efforts: “The continued development and improve...

On 26 March, the 77th Infantry Division kicked off the campaign by its skillful seizure of the Kerama Retto, a move which surprised the Japanese and produced great operational d...

Extracting wounded Marines from Kunishi remained a hair-raising feat. But the seriously wounded faced another half-day of evacuation by field ambulance over bad roads subject to...

The Japanese attacking the U.S. fleet off Okinawa also introduced their newest weapon, the “_Ohka_” (cherry blossom) bomb (called by the Americans “_Baka_,” a derisive Japanese...

The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa Countdown to ‘Love-Day’ Sidebar: The Senior Marine Commanders Sidebar: Initial Infantry Commanders Sidebar: The Japanese Fo...

Nor did the momentum of the assault slow appreciably after the Tenth Army broke out of the beachhead. The 7th Infantry Division reached the East Coast on the second day. On the...

Japanese gunners and mine warfare experts knocked out 51 Marine Corps Shermans in the battle. Many more tanks sustained damage in the fighting but were recovered and restored by...

To make this eBook easier to read, particularly on handheld devices, some images have been made relatively larger than in the original pamphlet, and centered, rather than offset...