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Battle of Okinawa - by Laura Lacey
Footnotes
1. George Feifer, Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb. (
Boston: Houghton Millfin Co.,1992) 578.
2. Roy E. Appleman, James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler, John Stevens, Unites
States Army in World War II The War in the Pacific Okinawa: The Last Battle
(Washington, DC:U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948) 468
3. ibid 488
4. Robert Leckie, Okinawa: The Last Battle of WWII (New York: Penguin Books,
1995) 202
5. ibid
6. Feifer, 509
7. Appleman, 473
8. Gow, p.29
9. ibid
10.. Appleman,, 415
11. Fifer, 69-71
12. Appleman, 474
13. William Tyree, 'Okinawa to be a Springboard'. United Press, June 25, 1945.
14. Joseph Alexander, The Final Campaign: Marine in the Victory on Okinawa
15. J. Robert Mosken, The U.S. Marine Corps History, 396
16. CINCPO, Communique, No.313, March 29, 1945
17. Ibid, 374
18. Appleman, 68
19. D-Day Museum, New Orleans, La. Pacific side
20. Sid Moody. Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Saturday, April 1, 1945, 1A
21. CINCPOA Communique, No.285, March 2, 1945.
22. Fifier, 595
23. C.L. Sulberger, Ed. The American Heritage, WWII. American Heritage
Publishing Co. NY.1966. 589
24. David Nichols, Ernie's War, Random House, NY. 1996, 407
25. Fiefer, 596
26. Moody, 1A
27. Richard B. Frank. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, 1999,
NY. Random house p264
28. ibid, 285
29. Ernie Pyle, The Last Chapter, Henry Holt Co. New York, 1946. 138
30. Ibid, .140
31. Ian Gow, Okinawa, 1945: Gateway to the Pacific. Doubleday & Co., New
York,1985p.30
32. Hiromichi Yahara, The Battle For Okinawa. John Wiley and Sons. New York, p
3.
33. Yahara, chapter 1
34. Yahara, p.32
35. Ibid, p.35
36. Gow, p.89
37. Special Action Report On Okinawa Operation, Phase 1 and 2, Vol. 1. Quantico
Archives Sixth Marine Special Collection, Box 7, Folder 1
38. Gow, p.80
39. Gow, p 40-41
40. Applemen, The War in the Pacific. Okinawa: The Last Battle. Center for
Military History, United States Army. Washington, D.C.1991. p2
41. Ibid, p.6
42. Ibid, p3
43. 'WWII' Marine Link,
http://www.usmc.../77f992b2qcb682eb852564d70059c642?OpenDocument&ExpandSection
=. 1/28/02 p. 1
44. Applemen, 492
45. Bevan Cass, ed. History of the Sixth Marine Division. 1987 Battery Press,
Nashville. 1
46. Cass, 11
47. Simmons, Edward H., Moskins J. Robert, eds. The Marine., Hugh Lauter Levin
Association, Inc. Hong Kong, 1998 p.73
48. John T. Hoffman. 'The Lore of the Corps. Okinawa; 6th Marine Division, Only
One Formed, Fought and Disbanded Entirely Overseas' .Navy Times, August 1999.
49. Ibid p. 3
50. James Hallas, The Battle for Sugar Loaf..
51. Ota.
52. E. R .Mosman, Lt. Commander. 'War Diary of Military Government Detachment,'
B-5. .23
53. Admiral Ota
54. p.19-20
55. Cook, p355
56. Haruko Taya Cook and Thedore F. Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History, New
Press, New York,1992,p355
57. Seizan Nakasone, Himeyuri, Okianwa Japan, 1989, 32
58. Ibid, ,36
59. Admiral Ota
60. Pyle, p125
61. ibid, 109
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