The Japanese strategy did not call for stopping the Allies at Okinawa. The Japanese fielded the 32 nd Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, consisted of 3 infantry divisions and several mixed brigades. The Navy deployed its powerful Fifth Fleet under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance.
Waging the ground campaign would be the Allied Tenth Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and consisting of 3 Marine divisions and 4 Army infantry divisions. The Battle of Okinawa may be divided into two parts: the land battle and the battle at sea. Okinawa would be the last step prior to the invasion of the Japanese home islands scheduled for November 1945, and March 1946.
Stretching southwesterly from Japan are the Ryukyu Islands, the largest of which is Okinawa, just under 400 miles from Kyushu.
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