Okinawa Part V: City of Naha [Mission]
Map: Okinawa – 5/24/1945
Gamemode: Operation (5 phases)
Invaders: United States (allies)
Defenders: Japan (axis)
"Throughout the night of 23-24 May the 6th Engineer Battalion labored to build a crossing for vehicles. Borrowing from experience at Guadalcanal, five LVT’s were brought to the stream and efforts made to move them into position to serve as piers for bridge timbers. Two of the LVT’s struck mines along the bank and were destroyed, and the effort to bridge the stream in this manner was abandoned. At dawn a Bailey bridge was started, and by 1430 it had been finished. A tank crossing was ready before dark. The same day two squads of the Reconnaissance Company crossed the lower Asato and roamed the streets of northwestern Naha without meeting resistance."
"Naha had no tactical value other than to afford the Americans a route of travel southward to the next objective. The city was located in a wide coastal flat at the mouth of the Kokuba River; it was dominated by the high ground of the Oroku Peninsula across the channel to the south, and by a ridge that curved around the city and coastal flat from the northeast to southwest along the Kokuba estuary."
https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter14.htm
Last update: 4/11/2024
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