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By Laura Homan Lacey

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The 6th Marine department holds a special position in U.S. Marine Corps historical past, since it used to be retired after one nice conflict. The department was once shaped on Guadalcanal in September 1944, its ranks full of battle-hardened veterans and untested alternative troops. The 6th department fought its in basic terms motion at the island of Okinawa from April to June 1945 yet entered the struggle with extra wrestle event total than the other Marine department in its preliminary conflict. It upset nobody. The Okinawa crusade concerned 8 military and Marine divisions, however the 6th captured lots of the floor in a few of the bloodiest struggling with of the struggle. Weeks later, atomic assaults on jap towns in early August 1945 quickly ended the battle. "Before Hiroshima there has been Okinawa. as a result of Okinawa, in massive half there has been Hiroshima," wrote one reporter. With the invasion of Japan canceled, the 6th department went to China on profession responsibility and, on 1 April 1946, used to be reorganized out of lifestyles. because it was once created in a foreign country, so used to be it disbanded. This booklet tells the tale of those Marines of their personal phrases. Historian Laura Lacey - a Marine loved one who has lived on Okinawa -sympathetically portrays the boys who in 1945 fought a massive conflict that she contends has no longer bought its complete percentage of awareness from historians. Lacey considers the gritty information of shut quarters strive against and considers the myriad actual and mental wounds that warfare wreaks. With Marines now engaged in a tricky struggle in Iraq, Lacey’s publication reminds us that even if a conflict is well known, battle is certainly hell.

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We took only six men. It might have been a hundred rounds of ammunition, I think. We took six men and me. Being Gun One, I was in the bow of the LST on the [gun] ramp chained down. When they opened the doors I was looking right down at that water, four miles out to sea. We had a black man . . Army . . these were Army DWUK’s. Where they came from, God only knows. There was a black man [who] was our driver. I’ve never seen anyone more scared than he was. He liked to turn white. Anyhow, he eased that thing down that ramp and we went into the water.

It didn’t have any ladders or anything. You jumped down off of it, I guess. When I did, my feet straddled a little rice terrace in this rice field . . a terrace where they maintain their water in this rice field at certain times. My left foot on one side, my right foot on the other side, and I popped both ankles. It didn’t break them but I thought to God it had. Down I went. That was as hurting a hurtas I have ever known. But at any rate, we made it on and got together, and eventually got assigned some gun positions late in the afternoon.

I met ‘em out on the street and we got our booze. As I said, you couldn’t 952-4 Stay Off Skyline 8/11/05 1:07 PM Page 37 THEIR WAR BEGINS drink it on the street. I don’t know what they expected you to do with it. We found this wooded area and there was an old log down there and a stump or two. My memories say that we had a case of Dr. Pepper, hot Dr. Pepper. We went down in the woods with the mosquitoes and sat down on these stumps and logs and began to drink whatever it was we had with hot Dr.

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