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Final Touchdown by Ivan Berryman

Okinawa by Robert Taylor. (B) SQN158 On the British side thereDHM6576B. Okinawa by Robert Taylor. Following their victory at Midway, American forces had fought a long, bloody and bitter campaign to retake the Japanese held islands in the Pacific. By the end of March 1945, however, they had finally captured Iwo Jima and looked towards Okinawa, a province of Japan itself. But the closer the fighting came to Japan, the greater was the enemy's resistance. The five week long battle for Iwo Jima had been bloody,