Posted on Feb 27, 2020
The U.S. Assault on Okinawa Was Met With an Eerie Silence
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TSgt Joe C. PO3 Steven Sherrill CW3 Kevin Storm SSG (Join to see) SGM Steve Wettstein SMSgt Thor Merich MSG (Join to see) PO1 John Johnson MAJ Ken Landgren LTC Greg Henning PVT Mark Zehner MSG Tom Earley Alan K. SPC Mark Huddleston PO1 H Gene Lawrence SGT Elizabeth Scheck Sgt Deborah Cornatzer SSgt Boyd Herrst SPC Diana D. SPC Nancy Greene
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Didn't last long and showed senior leaders what they would face if they had to invade mainland Japan.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
SPC Michael Oles SR He got $300 and a small pension. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Yokoi
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SGT Kevin Hughes
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Amazing. I also found a few others that hid out for a couple decades. One of them - hid out in the Philippines. They had to bring his old Company Commander from Japan to get him to "surrender". But the Philippines didn't want to extradite him because he killed thirty men in the years he was hiding...but they decided he was a soldier not a murderer. Wow.
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I served over there After Back in the Seventy’Around Okinawa daily, And Naha, Makimanato, Kadena
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