yellowwing
04-01-06, 09:50 AM
Americans Invade Okinawa
New York Times, April 1, 1945
Guam, Monday, April 2 [Delayed] -- The United States Tenth Army landed yesterday morning on Okinawa, main island of the Ryukyus, 362 miles from the Japanese home islands. This morning found the invaders three miles inland and holding two airfields, with the defenders retreating all along the eight-mile landing line.
The veteran doughboys and Marines met amazingly light resistance from the minute they landed yesterday at 8:30 A.M. They pushed up the steep slopes from the landing beaches with ease, although the shore was dominated by enemy guns on high ground.
Marines took the Yontan airfield at the northern end of the beachhead while Army troops captured the Katena airdrome in the southern area.
In his second communique on the operation Admiral Chester W. Nimitz at 9:30 A.M. today reported:
"United States forces on Okinawa advanced inland rapidly throughout the first day of the assault and by 18:00 (6 P.M.) on April 1 (East Longitude date), forward elements of the Twenty-fourth Army Corps and Marine Third Amphibious Corps had expanded in the beachhead to a three mile depth at several points. Enemy resistance continued to be light...
New York Times, April 1, 1945
Guam, Monday, April 2 [Delayed] -- The United States Tenth Army landed yesterday morning on Okinawa, main island of the Ryukyus, 362 miles from the Japanese home islands. This morning found the invaders three miles inland and holding two airfields, with the defenders retreating all along the eight-mile landing line.
The veteran doughboys and Marines met amazingly light resistance from the minute they landed yesterday at 8:30 A.M. They pushed up the steep slopes from the landing beaches with ease, although the shore was dominated by enemy guns on high ground.
Marines took the Yontan airfield at the northern end of the beachhead while Army troops captured the Katena airdrome in the southern area.
In his second communique on the operation Admiral Chester W. Nimitz at 9:30 A.M. today reported:
"United States forces on Okinawa advanced inland rapidly throughout the first day of the assault and by 18:00 (6 P.M.) on April 1 (East Longitude date), forward elements of the Twenty-fourth Army Corps and Marine Third Amphibious Corps had expanded in the beachhead to a three mile depth at several points. Enemy resistance continued to be light...