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Contents
- 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 Forces
- L-Day and Movement to Contact
- The Air and Sea Battles
- Sidebar: The U.S. Army at Okinawa
- Sidebar: Marine Air at Okinawa
- Assault on Shuri
- Sidebar: Marine Artillery at Okinawa
- Sidebar: Marine Tanks at Okinawa
- Closing the Loop
- Sidebar: Subsidiary Amphibious Landings
- Legacy
- Sidebar: For Extraordinary Heroism
- Sources
- About the Series
- About the Author
- Transcriber’s Notes
The Final
Campaign:
Marines in the
Victory on
Okinawa
Marines in
World War II
Commemorative Series
By Colonel Joseph H. Alexander
U.S. Marine Corps (Ret)
LtCol Richard P. Ross,commander of 1st Battalion, 1st Marines,1st Marine Division, braves sniperfire to place the division’s colors on aparapet of Shuri Castle on 30 May. Thisflag was first raised over Cape Gloucesterand then Peleliu. Department ofDefense Photo (USMC) 121832.
Two Marines, Davis P. Hargraveswith Thompson submachine gunand Gabriel Chavarria with BAR, of 2dBattalion, 1st Marines, advance onWana Ridge on 18 May 1945. Departmentof Defense Photo (USMC) 123170