| Series |
Marine Corps monograph ; no. 15
Marine Corps monographs ; no. 15. ^A1348267
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| Contents |
Background : Strategic background -- Historical notes -- Okinawa and the Okinawans -- Planning ICEBERG : Strategic concepts -- Command relationships -- Intelligence -- Tactical planning -- Logistical planning -- Preparation for the assault: Training and rehearsing -- Mounting and staging for the assault -- Preliminary covering strikes -- Seizure of Kerama Retto -- Prelanding operations -- Japanese defensive preparation : The Thirty-second Army -- Strengthening the defenses -- Reinforcing the Army -- Prelanding dispositions -- Seizure of the beachhead : Severing the Island -- Meeting the enemy -- Logistical progress -- Kamikaze -- Action in the North : Securing the Eastern Islands -- 6th Marine Division advances -- Battle for Motobu Peninsula -- Marines' "Guerrilla War," -- Capture of Ie Shima -- Developing the Shuri defenses : Penetrating the Outpost Line -- Build-up in the South -- Attack of 19 April -- Assaulting the Second Defense Ring -- 1st Marine Division joins XXIV Corps -- IIIAC enters the Lists : Japanese counterattack -- The battle lines are drawn -- Tenth Army attacks -- Logistical progress -- Reduction of the Shuri Bastion: Sugar Loaf Hill -- Wana Draw -- Shuri Heights and Conical Hill -- Struggle in the rain -- Japanese withdrawal -- Ushijima's last stand : Breakout to the South -- The capture of Oroku Peninsula -- Kunishi Ridge -- Iheya-Aguni Operation -- Yaeju Dake-Yuza Dake -- End of organized resistance -- Campaign summary : The clean-up drive -- The Tenth Army's Air Force -- Island Command activities -- Tactical evaluation -- Key to conquest -- Appendices : Bibliography -- Chronology -- Command and Staff List of Marine Unites on Okinawa -- III Amphibious Corps task organization -- Japanese order of battle -- Marine casualties -- Marine and Naval Corpsmen Medal of Honor winners -- Navy Unit Commendations. |
| General note | "Text and another illustration on p. 1 and 4 of cover." |
| General note | 27 maps attached to inside of back cover. |
| General note | Document for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, laminated cover, $5.50. |
| General note | 4to. |
| General note | GPO Historic Shelflist Project- publication not in hand. |
| General note | GPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-280) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: United States. Marine Corps. Okinawa. Washington, D.C. :Historical Branch, G-3 Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1955. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 56000849 |
| GPO item number | 0383 |
| Govt. docs number |
D 214.2:OK 3 |
