LEYTE CAMPAIGN RIVALLED
BITTER FIGHTING ON OKINAWA Washington, April 8. "The Seventh Marine and Third Amphibious Corps continued to drive to the south against negligible enemy resistance on Ishikawa Isthmus, Okinawa.” says Admiral Nimitz’s communique. The New York "Herald-Tribune” correspondent on Okinawa s ays grim fighting rivalling lwo Jima in intensity raged on rolling, craggy country in the 24th Corps sector, where Americans dented the main enemy positions on the western half of the six-mile front extending across the island. Troops said the bitter enemy resistance surpassed anything encountered in the Leyte campaign. The next few days might bring the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific war. Tokio radio announced that American troops advancing on Okinawa's capital, Naha, have reached a line to the south of Oyama, Shinoushi and Arakaki, but the Japanese were counter-attacking fiercely. The present war outlook did not permit any optimism whatsoever.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 9 April 1945, Page 5
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145LEYTE CAMPAIGN RIVALLED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 9 April 1945, Page 5
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