WWII

Using every mountain climbing and flame-throwing tactic in the book, 7th division doughfeet have stormed and burned through the fortifications atop Yaeju-Dake plateau in what may turn out to be the final battle for Okinawa.

The going is easier now on Okinawa – and whatever hopes the Japanese had of stopping the avalanche of American fighting men is gone.

The most vicious type of hand-to-hand fighting is raging all along the southern front of Okinawa. The veterans of the 7th Division are engaging in more hand-to-hand combat than in all their other three campaigns put together.