(2/5) Pacific Lost Evidence Okinawa World War II

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SUBSCRIBE TO EXCELLENT WORLD WAR II VIDEOS Landing day for Okinawa, the final land battle of the Pacific War, was Easter Sunday, 1 April 1945. The Landing force was the new Tenth Army under Army Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner. He commanded two corps, XXIV Corps, with five army divisions, and III Amphibious Corps, with three Marine divisions, all told some 182000 troops. In overall charge was Vice Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, commander of the Fifth Fleet. Okinawa, sixty miles long and from two ...