Tenth United States Army
The Tenth United States Army ( German 10th US Army ) was the last US Army High Command that was set up in the Pacific War in the final phase of World War II . The Army Headquarters was organized in Fort Sam Houston , Texas , in June 1944 and relocated to Hawaii in the same year . The army was commanded by Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. until he fell on Okinawa on June 18, 1945 . Major General Roy Geiger temporarily led the army until General Joseph Stilwell took command on June 23.
During the Battle of Okinawa the following units belonged to the 10th Army: The XXIV. Corps of the US Army and the III. Amphibious Corps of the US Marine Corps . The 10th Army was the only army to have its own tactical air force ( Joint Army-Marine Command ). The subordinate units included the 1st , 2nd and 6th Marine Corps Divisions, the 7th , 27th and 96th Infantry Divisions of the Army and the 77th Sustainment Brigade .
The 10th Army consisted of 102,000 Army soldiers, over 88,000 Marines and 18,000 members of the Navy (mainly Seabees and paramedics). At the beginning of the Battle of Okinawa, 182,821 men were under the command of the 10th Army.
The 10th Army lost 65,631 men during its operations. The XXIV. Corps lost 34,736, the III. Amphibious Corps 26,724, the Tactical Air Force 520. The highest-ranking casualties were General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Brigadier General Claudius M. Easley.
Okinawa was the only battle the 10th Army participated in during World War II. She was supposed to take part in Operation Downfall , the second phase of the invasion of Japan, but the Japanese surrender after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made this void.
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- Jump up ↑ Nicholas (Editor) Sarantakes: Seven Stars, The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. and Joseph Stilwell . Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2004, ISBN 1-58544-294-1 , pp. 82, 83.
- ^ A b c d Gordon Rottman: Okinawa 1945: The last battle. Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 1-84176-546-5 , p. 39.
