East China Sea 1945

INTRODUCTION
The strategic setting
Origins of the campaign
CHRONOLOGY
OPPOSING COMMANDERS
Japanese
Allied
OPPOSING FORCES
Japanese
Allied
Operation Iceberg orders of battle, April 1, 1945
OPPOSING PLANS
Japanese
Allied
THE CAMPAIGN
Commencing Detachment, February 16-20, 1945
Kamikaze attacks against Fifth Fleet, February 21
Winning Iwo Jima, February 24-March 26
Iceberg preliminaries, March 1945
L-Day at Okinawa, April 1
The Great Onslaught: Kikisui No. 1, April 6-7
Ten-Ichi-Go: Yamato's death ride, April 6-7
Kikisui No. 2, April 12-13
Kikisui No. 3, April 16
Kikisui No. 4, April 27-28
Kikisui No. 5, May 3-4
Kikisui No. 6, May 10-11
Kyushu diversion, May 13-14
Air and naval gunfire support of Tenth Army
Kikisui No. 7, May 23-25
Kikisui No. 8, May 27-29
Okinawa secured, June-July 1945
AFTERMATH
THE WARSHIPS TODAY
FURTHER READING
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
INDEX

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• Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Batalhas e campanhas

Okinawa; Iwo Jima; Japan; Kamikaze; Pacific Theater of Operations; Yamato; carrier; Task Force 58; Spruance; Mitscher; East China Sea; British Pacific Fleet; Operation Ten-Go; Admiral Ito; Ryukyu Islands; Suzutsuki