![]() ![]() The Marine Corps, which bore the brunt of the fighting on the island, lost almost 19,000 dead and wounded. The Army lost 4,675 dead and nearly 19,000 wounded. This sanguinary campaign cost the United States 36 ships sunk, with the loss of nearly 10,000 sailors dead or wounded. The officers and ratings of the ship were about to participate in the last great campaign of World War II, the capture of the strategically important island of Okinawa. This is the story of one eventful day in the life of the Goodhue during the Pacific War. ![]() However, for the American sailors aboard the Bayfield-class attack transport USS Goodhue, the war had yet to begin. The Americans had the Japanese on the ropes and the ever-shrinking Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was now limited to the Ryukyus and the home islands of Japan. Prospects for victory in the Pacific were looking brighter, but the war was far from decided. More than 60 years ago, in April 1945, the war in Europe was winding down to its inevitable conclusion. ![]()
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