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The Ryukyus
Capture of Okinawa ("The Great Loochoo")
Related: Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Doctrine
for amphibious operations.Links to additional resources
Contents
The Fleet That Came to Stay: Naval Operations & the Kamikazes
- HISTORY OF U.S. NAVAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II, by Samuel Eliot Morison
Vol. XIV: Victory in the Pacific
- Building the Navy's Bases in World War II: Chapter 30-- Okinawa
- Capture of Okinawa (Ryukyus Operation), 27 March to 21 June 1945 (OpNav 34-P-0700: Amphibious Operations)
- Report of Operations of Task Force FIFTY-EIGHT in Support of Landings at OKINAWA, 14 March through 28 May (East Longitude Dates), including Actions against KYUSHU, NANSI SHOTO, Japanese Fleet at Kure, the Yamato, and Operations in Direct Support of Landings at OKINAWA
- USS Hydrus (AKA-28) opertional orders for ICEBERG
- THE COAST GUARD AT WAR: Vol. X The Pacific Landings
Part 26: Ryukyu Islands--Kerama Group
The Kamikaze Threat:
- Antiaircraft Action Summary: Suicide Attacks, April 1945 (Cominch P-0099)
- Battle Experience: Radar Pickets and Mwethods of Combatting Suicide Attacks off Okinawa, March-May 1945
- Anti-Suicide Action Summary (Cominch P-0011, August 1945)
- Antiaircraft Action Summary: World War II (Cominch Information Bulletin No. 29; October 1945)
- From Dam Neck to Okinawa: A Memoir of Antiaircraft Training in World War II
The Battle for Okinawa:
- HISTORY OF U.S. NAVAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II, by Samuel Eliot Morison
Vol. XIV: Victory in the Pacific
- The Amphibians Came to Conquer, Chapter XXIV
- U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR II--THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
- U.S. ARMY CAMPAIGNS OF WORLD WAR II
- U.S. MARINE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH
- HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
- MARINES IN WORLD WAR II COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY
Additional Resources
- Japan's Battle of Okinawa, April-June 1945, Thomas M. Huber [Leavenworth Papers No. 18]
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