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Marines Storm Little Sugar Loaf On Okinawa
Sixth Division Marines pressed up a pine-covered ridge outside Naha in a 24 hour assault on Little Sugar Loaf. Lt Ralph Desso and Lt Robert Johnson led counteractions as U S forces killed dozens of Japanese defenders and suffered several casualties. Over 100 Japanese were slain before the hill was secured.
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Herman Kogan
Marine Corps Combat
Aomigusuku
Okinawa
Naha
Ralph Desso
Red Wing
Minn
Sixth Division
Desso
Pfc
Ted Gold
Pittsburgh
Earl J. Cook
Parker, Kans
Leland B. Culligan
West Birmingham
Ala
Robert Johnson
Batavia
N. J
Edward Kurdziel
Columbus
Johnson
Roy “Alley Oop” Hunt
Greenville
S. C
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Ben Hinson Jones
Milwaukee
Oreg
Hunt
Jones
Maj
Kurdziel
Maj. Cook