Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1945 — Page 18

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| On May 13, after months of ex{tremely hard fighting, Balete Pass, on | gateway to the Cagayan. valley, Was| | nded on Kerama Retto west of icaptured. East of Manila, on the oginawa. In three days the force |same day. the 1st cavalry division|p.q secured all islands in the |reached the sea at Binangonan gerama chain and had emplaced | Point, thus dividing the last enemy | yrtjjlery within range of the key | pockqt in central Luzon and cutting | island, Okinawa. ito the rear of the strong enemy) , s = = : | positions in ‘the Marikina water-| UNDER cover of an intense naval

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This is the 36th of 42 install- corps supported by Adm. R. A. ments of material selected from | Spruance’s 5th fleet landed along General Marshall's report on the the south coast of Iwo Jima, 7% winning of world war IL

jon. 1 May by an amphibious... | {force of Australian and Neth-| Iwo Jima was of vital importance | erlands East Indies troops to the air assault on Japan. which landed on oil-rich Tara-|;, cet the B-29 strike on Tokyo {kan Island off the northeast on coast of Borneo.

By the end of the month all im-| _..\0 damaged B-20's unable to

or os, O° “147! |make the full return fight to thei:

In mid-May another landing was | Duss | to the south. {made on Mindanao, this time at the guerrilla « held

The superforts were now blasting and the 3d marine corps established | | the great cities of the Japanese beachheads on the west coast of | islands on an ever-increasing scale. | jong, narrow Okinawa on 1 April. | | Chief targets were aircraft plants.| Aided by a realistic feint toward | Docks and small manufacturing the thickly populated southern tip | | plants received their share of the of the island, our forces met little |

| ON 19 February the 5th marine

J This small, ~short range, rocket-

Fly upon the two airfields from the!

J tedure was better organized and

{miles from the main Japanese island of Honshu, The fighting was exceptionally heavy and it was a month before organized resistance terminated. : The Japanese defense grew more

toward the shores of their home-|

Japa-| { nese interceptors which came up| lon 7. April 1945 found. & strong { Mustang escort with our bombers. | | The Iwo fields saved hundreds of |

pases in the Marianas, 800 miles

MEANWHILE Philippine - based |

{aircraft were establishing com- |}.

| mand over Formosa and the China, | coast and our naval carrier planes, | as well as the Superforts, delivered | | strikes at the very heart of Japan. It was now possible to drive | forward into the Ryukyus along | {the main Japanese archipelago | pordering the East China sea. { The offensive on the Rykuyus {was launched on 26 March when [the 77th division of Lt. Gen. SiB. Buckners 10th army

| pombardment, the 24th army corps |

| resistance in the landing and In| {consolidating positions ashore. | After driving across the island, | the marines swung northward {against light to moderate opposi- | {tion: the army corps turned south {toward Naha, principal city of the island, where it was confronted py the main Japanese force elab-

| orately entrenched. » . .

| BY THE end of the first week, | {four United States divisions were] {ashore and marine fighters were | operating from the Yontan airfield. {The 3d marine corps had driven | {20 miles northward. | | @en. Hodge, commander of the | 24th army corps wrote: ! “It is going to be really tough. There are 65000 to 70,000 fighting | Japs holed up in the south end of | [the island, and I see no way to | get them out except blast them out {yard by yard. Our attack is set to {go soon, and I think we are ready. | “The Japs have tremendous amounts of artillery and have used {it far more intelligently than I, have ever seen them use it to date. . "» { WITH best estimate, it shows around 500 or more individual wea-

‘some 169-175 of caliber 105 or bet-| (ter. The most powerful weapon of | long-range we have encountered to {date Is the 150 rifle with range of [27,000 yards which fires occasional- |

| vicinity of Shuri. | | They are using quite & Tew of | ‘the Spigot mortars (320-mm), 250{mm ° mortars, and aerial bobs up| to 250 kilograms fitted as rockets. | | They are also using large sized | + rockets somewhere in the & 6 to 8-! {inch class. : | | “The terrain is decidedly rugged land cut up with many cliffs, nat{ural and man-made, limestone and fcoral caves, and organized over long |] | periods of time, and well-manned.”

» » » AFTER mopping-up all of the northern part of the island, the marines took over a sector in the {South to throw their weight into {the drive for Naha, Progress cons {tinued slow against the bitterest {sort of opposition but by the mid-' {dle of June, our troops had broken | {through the heavily fortified Naha {and Shuri defense lines and had {compressed the Japanese into two pockets on southérn Okinawa. | The ferocity of the ground fighting was matched by frequent Jap- || anese air assaults on our shipping lin the Okinawa area. By the mid- | dle of June, 33 U. 8. ships had been | sunk and 45 damaged, principally 'by aerial attacks. ° ;

= IN THE Philippines campaign U. |S, forces first met the full fury lof the kamikaze or suicide attacks, {but at Okinawa the Japanese pro- |

Involved larger numbers of planes; jalso the Baka plane appeared, {something quite new and deadly.

{accelerated aircraft, d more {than a ton of explosives in its war (head. It was designed to be ear

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for Okinawa?

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