OKINAWA, THE FINAL BATTLE, Part Four: Conquering ‘Hell’s Cesspool’

By the end of April 1945, the battle for Okinawa, which started off so promisingly for the Americans and their allies, had degenerated into a repeat of Peleliu and Iwo Jima, only on a larger and more lethal scale. Although the Marines of Gen. Geiger’s III Corps were making steady progress clearing out the northern, ...