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(ADM George W. Anderson, Jr., Volume I [2])
Support of invasion by the destroyer Franks (DD-554) in March-April 1945, 192-6
(Mr. Michael J. Bak, Jr. [3])
Work of a logistic support company of black sailors on Okinawa in 1945, 64-5, 85-7; while serving on Okinawa, an enlisted sentry failed to show Barnes the respect due an officer, 74-6; white officers got up and left the officers' club when Barnes entered, 82-5, 117-8; two devastating typhoons hit the island in late 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, 87-9; procedure for burying Okinawans in crypts, then in caves, 89
(Dr. Samuel E. Barnes [4])
P. 158; a major objective of U.S. in ongoing march to the Japanese mainland, 162; 174-5; cooperation achieved in rescue operations at Okinawa, 176
(ADM Chester R. Bender, USCG [5])
Description of U.S.-run government in 1953, 475-6
(RADM Roy S. Benson, Volume II [6])
USS Franklin (CV-13) prepares for Okinawa campaign in early 1945, 131; USS Randolph (CV-15) operates in support of troops ashore, 139, 145
(VADM Gerald F. Bogan [7])
Operations around this island by the patrol craft PCE(R)-858 in 1945, 228, 232
(Mr. Roger L. Bond [8])
First aerial attach of task force planes on, 386; battle plans for attack, 422 ff; propaganda leaflets, 427-8; mining operations, 428-30, 437-8
(ADM Arleigh A. Burke, Volume I [9])
P. 411 ff; suitable base for planes attacking mainland of Japan, 412; price Navy paid, 422-3; discussion of timing for the campaign, 423-4
(VADM George C. Dyer [10])
Intelligence prior to U.S. invasion in 1945 included warnings about poisonous snakes on the island, but Eller encountered none while there, 9
(RADM Ernest M. Eller, Volume I [11])
Japanese built up Truk and Okinawa during World War II, 697; Eller assigned to the Panamint (AGC-13) for Okinawa operation in March-April 1945, 719-20, 726; Rear Admiral William Blandy's close-in, precise bombardment before the Okinawa landing in April 1945, 720-1; Rear Admiral Lawrence Reifsnider used the Panamint (AGC-13) as his flagship for, 720; Major General Roy Geiger's estimates of how long it would take his Third Corps, Marines, to reach Yontan airfield on during the invasion, 722, 724; Marine Corps headed beyond Yontan airfield during landing, 722, 725, 729; UDT's involvement in, 722; kamikazes used extensively on during invasion, 723, 725; Reifsnider's failed attempt to keep ships firing on only at close range, 723
(RADM Ernest M. Eller, Volume II [11])
President Eisenhower's announcement that island would revert to Japan eventually, 459; difficulty in basing the Marine Air Wing in Okinawa, 461
(ADM Harry D. Felt, Volume II [12])
Seaplane tender Salisbury Sound (AV-13), crewmen caught with U.S. Marines' Okinawan girlfriends in the mid-1950s, 692-3
(RADM Francis D. Foley, Volume II [13])
Discussion of return of island to Japan, 382-3
(RADM Samuel B. Frankel [14])
Difficult racial climate in the late 1950s, 120-1
(VADM Samuel L. Gravely, Jr. [15])
Kamikaze attacks against U.S. ships involved in the Okinawa operation in the spring of 1945, 115-8; description of conditions when Hedding and Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman visited in the spring of 1945, 119-20
(VADM Truman J. Hedding [16])
Rickover sets up a ship repair facility in Okinawa, 129; 135-6
(VADM Edwin B. Hooper [17])
Pacific Fleet staff concerned with lack of proper airfield here in the mid-1950s, 199-200
(ADM John J. Hyland, Jr., Volume I [18])
(VADM Andrew McBurney Jackson, Jr. [19])
Repair job in September 1945 on the battleship Pennsylvania (BB-38) after she had been torpedoes the previous month at Okinawa, 55-7
(CAPT Harry A. Jackson [20])
P. 625-6; 631; 663
(CAPT Stephen Jurika, Jr., Volume II [21])
Site for training beach jumpers, UDT, and SEAL units in the late 1960s, 287
(CAPT Francis R. Kaine [22])
P. 254; reconnaissance of Karama Retto anchorage - the kaiten boats, 256-7; the obstacles off the beaches of Okinawa, 259-63; taking of Iwo Jima, 265; the kamikaze, 269-73
(RADM Draper L. Kauffman [23])
Role of the light cruiser Mobile (CL-63) during the operation in 1945, 103-6, 108, 120-1, 124-7
(VADM Jerome King, Jr. [24])
Picture of invasion, 168; dealing with the reporters during invasion, 168
(VADM Fitzhugh Lee [25])
Invaded in April 1945 with support from the battleship New York (BB-34), 95-100; during the Okinawa campaign, the New York was hit and damaged on 14 April 1945 by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft, 97-101
(Mr. E. E. Logue [26])
Operations of battleship Colorado (BB-45) during the campaign for Okinawa in the spring of 1945, 66-8, 78
(ADM Robert L. J. Long [27])
Carrier aircraft supported the U.S. invasion of this island in February 1945, 31-33; Japanese use of kamikazes, 32-3
(ADM Frederick H. Michaelis [28])
News media coverage of the invasion of in April 1945, 146-147; woman reporter Dickey Chapelle went ashore to cover the invasion in 1945, even though prohibited from doing so, 149-51
(RADM Harold B. Miller [29])
P. 85-7; post-WW II base constructed there, 190-1; SEATO weapons demonstration held there in 1959, 242
(RADM Henry L. Miller, Volume I
[30])
Participation of the BB North Carolina, 206-7
(RADM Thomas H. Morton [31])
In the spring of 1945 was subjected to heavy kamikaze raids, 231-2, 236; use of radar by the battleship Missouri (BB-63) in the spring of 1945 for navigation around Okinawa, 232-4; bombardment of in the spring of 1945 by U.S. battleships, 237
(ADM Stuart S. Murray [32])
U.S. warships were based at Kerama Retto during the Okinawa operation in the spring of 1945, 604
(VADM Lloyd M. Mustin, Volume I [33])
Fast carrier task support of the U.S. invasion in the spring of 1945, 835-42, 857-9, 863-6; diversionary shore bombardment by U.S. battleships in March 1945, 842-6, 870; U.S. invasion of in April 1945, 845-6; Japanese use of suicide weapons in the island's defense in 1945, 846-8, 855, 862-6, 876
(VADM Lloyd M. Mustin, Volume II [33])
In the mid-1960s a group of officers from the air group of the aircraft carrier Bennington (CVS-20) wreaked havoc in a club at White Beach, 45; in the mid-1960s had the ashore headquarters of Patrol Force Seventh Fleet, 51-2
(RADM Oakley E. Osborn [34])
Hit by typhoons in the autumn of 1945, 57
(RADM Jackson K. Parker [35])
Carrier attacks in preparation for invasion, 123-6
(VADM Robert Burns Pirie [36])
Air support of the U.S. amphibious forces taking part in the conquest of this Pacific island in 1945, 136-7
(ADM Alfred M. Pride [37])
The large seaplane tender Salisbury Sound (AV-13) operated around Okinawa in the early 1960s, 228-9; concern about venereal disease, 229
(RADM James D. Ramage [38])
Army uses it as a repair base for equipment coming out of Vietnam, 531-2
(VADM Lawson P. Ramage [39])
Reagan recommended building a big concrete slab for the recreation of Navy personnel serving on the island in 1945, 64-5
(Mr. John W. Reagan [40])
The escort carrier Makassar Strait (CVE-91) was in a combat air support group for the operation in the spring of 1945, 141-50, 162, 165-6; kamikaze attacks reached a peak during the operation, 141-50; the British Pacific Fleet's first combat assignment was at Sakishima Gunto, Okinawa's back door, in the spring 1945, 162-3, 297; a Marine air group set up a field on Okinawa late in the spring of 1945, 165-6
(VADM Herbert D. Riley [41])
P. 294-5
(ADM Horatio Rivero, Jr. [42])
P. 206
(ADM James S. Russell [43])
P. 68
(VADM Robert S. Salzer [44])
The submarine Sterlet (SS-392) picked up downed naval aviators off Okinawa late in World War II, 80-2
(CAPT Paul R. Schratz [45])
Participation of the cruiser St. Louis (CL-49) and other ships in the 1945 operation, 73-4, 76-82
(RADM Doniphan B. Shelton [46])
See entry under USS Brush
(VADM J. Victor Smith [47])
Problems in port security at Naha, 252; smuggling, 253-4
(ADM Willard J. Smith, USCG [48])
P. 495; stopover of Ballentine and Smith-Hutton en route to Japan (Aug. 1945), 496
(CAPT Henri H. Smith-Hutton, Volume II [49])
P. 161-3; concerted attack of kamikaze, 163; call fire for destroyers, 173-4; Japanese tactics, 174; Smoot goes ashore, 175
(VADM Roland N. Smoot [50])
Discussion in the late 1960s of cultural differences between people on the island, 128-9
(RADM Neil M. Stevenson, CHC [51])
Charles Carroll (APA-28) participated in landings in the spring of 1945, 261, 262-4; when a United Nations committee considered giving away trusteeship of Okinawa in January 1946, someone leaked the story to the press, 272-3
(RADM Elliott B. Strauss [52])
Headquarters for Strean as C.O. of the Taiwan Patrol Force, 339 ff; the typhoon, 348-51
(VADM Bernard M. Strean [53])
Served as the home base for the commander of the U.S. Taiwan Patrol Force in the late 1950s, 209-10, 217-8; base for patrol force aircraft, 211, 213; visited by Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, in the late 1950s, 213, 215-6
(VADM Paul D. Stroop [54])
Air attack on in preparation for landing at Leyte Gulf, 358-9; 447; Thach's comments about being tied to one spot and being vulnerable to the enemy as a result, 448;
(ADM John S. Thach, Volume I [55])
Destination of the 27th Battalion after stay at Camp Parks, 181 ff; getting settled, 188-9; the 27th Battalion constructs Route 1 from Naha to the south, also a supply depot - in addition quarters for the natives in the NE sector, 191-2; use of DDT in eliminating flies, 195; the effects of a big typhoon, 216 ff
(CAPT Willard G. Triest, CEC [56])
USS Chenango acts as escort for the First Marines – leaving Guadalcanal for Okinawa, 501, 509; Oldendorf's role at Okinawa, 534-6; Oldendorf changes flagships in Buckner Bay, 540; typhoon heads for island, 550 ff; results of this storm, 554-5
(RADM George van Deurs [57])
Description of the kamikaze damage sustained by the destroyer Laffey off Okinawa in the spring of 1945, 108-9
(RADM Odale D. Waters, Jr. [58])
Iowa embarks contingent of SeaBees from, for demobilization, 251
(VADM Charles Wellborn, Jr. [59])
The destroyer Sigsbee (DD-502) was damaged by a Japanese kamikaze at Okinawa in April 1945, 115-6
(VADM Thomas R. Weschler, Volume I [60])
Because of atmospheric phenomena, in 1945 men on board the rocket-equipped landing craft LCI(R)-225 in the Philippines were able to hear radio conversations from Okinawa, hundreds of miles away, 71, 90; in the autumn of 1945 typhoons plastered the island, 91-6; site of exams in 1945 by which Williams became a regular officer, 95-7
(VADM Joe Williams, Jr. [61])
In 1965 served as a way station for Marines and Navy medical personnel en route to Vietnam, 72-3
(RADM Almon Wilson, MC [62])
U.S. naval facilities on island, 191; problem of Marines training in Japan, on slopes of Fujiyama, 191
(RADM Frederic S. Withington [63])
DesRon 57 operates off Okinawa at end of war, 309 ff; escort duty in connection with typhoon, 313 ff
(RADM Joseph M. Worthington [64])
Site of operations by the buoy tender Ironwood (WLB-297) in the mid-1950s, 85-6, 95-6
(ADM Paul A. Yost, Jr., USCG [65])