Kakazu Ridge - with Rob Avery in 2014

According to the U.S. Annals of Warfare, "The loss of twenty-two tanks on 19 April in the Kakazu area was
the greatest suffered by American armor on Okinawa in a single engagement." For more than two weeks
after the battle, the Japanese Forces withdrew to the Maeda Ridge of Urasoe.


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