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This is the order of battle for the US invasion of the island of Okinawa, called Operation Iceberg, the final Allied offensive in the Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II.
The defending Japanese military was determined to inflict a casualty rate so high that the U.S. government would choose not to invade the Japanese home islands. To this end, the southern portion of the island had been covered with the most extensive system of fortifications and fields of fire the Americans had yet encountered. In anticipation of this level of resistance, five full divisions, two Marine and three Army, were committed to the struggle.
The initial American landings took place on 1 April 1945 and the island was not declared secure until 22 June, a period of 82 days, far longer than was expected by US planners. Four days before the end of the campaign, Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. became the highest ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in action in the Second World War.
The casualty rate eundure by the US _____________
Summary of US ground forces
- US Tenth Army
- Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., USA (KIA 18 Jun)
- III Amphibious Corps
- Major General Roy S. Geiger, USMC
- Left: 6th Marine Division (24,356 officers and enlisted)
- Right: 1st Marine Division (26,274 officers and enlisted)
- XXIV Army Corps
- Major General John R. Hodge, USA
- Left: 7th Infantry ("Bayonet") Division (21,929 officers and enlisted)
- Right: 96th Infantry ("Deadeye") Division (22,330 officers and enlisted)
- Reserve: 27th Infantry ("New York") Division (16,143 officers and enlisted)