美軍實際投射上島作戰的兵力大約18萬
島上數萬日軍守軍 幾乎無海空軍支援 也缺乏重型裝備,只能單純依賴陣地內槍砲抵抗~
結果有絕對海空優的美軍,美軍戰機/戰艦火砲 幾乎把沖繩每一寸地都犁過一變的情況下 美軍依然陣亡兩萬多人~
Order of battle[edit]
Central Pacific Task Forces (Fifth Fleet) under Admiral Raymond Spruance:
掩護兵力:
Covering Forces and Special Groups (Task Force 50) directly under Spruance: Fast Carrier Force (TF 58) under Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher with 88 ships (including 11 fleet carriers, 6 light carriers, 7 battleships and 18 cruisers);[25]
British Carrier Force (TF 57) under Vice Admiral Sir Bernard Rawlings with 4 carriers, 2 battleships, 5 cruisers, 14 destroyers and fleet train;[25]
兩棲戰力(登陸部隊)
Joint Expeditionary Force (TF 51) under Vice Admiral Richmond K. Turner (who was holding position of Commander, Amphibious Forces, Pacific):[26] Amphibious Support Force (TF 52) under Rear Admiral William H. P. Blandy:[26] TG 52.1: 18 escort carriers with 450 aircraft;[26]
Sl Escort Carrier Group: 4 escort carriers with Marine Aircraft Group 31 and 33;[26]
Mine Flotilla (TG 52.2)
Underwater Demolition Flotilla (TG 52.11): 10 100-strong UDT aboard destroyer escorts[26]
170 fire support landing craft
Western Islands Attack Group (TG 51.1) under Rear Admiral Ingolf N. Kiland with 77th Infantry Division, 17 attack and attack cargo transporters, 56 LSTs and support vessels;[26]
Northern Attack Force (TF 53) under Rear Admiral Lawrence F. Reifsnider, Commander Amphibious Group 4, aboard USS Panamint (AGC-13) with III Amphibious Corps (Major General Roy Geiger) on 40+ attack and attack cargo transporters, 67 LSTs and support vessels;[26]
Southern Attack Force (TF 55) under Rear Admiral John L. Hall with XXIV Corps (Major General John R. Hodge);[26]
Demonstration Group (TG 51.2) with 2nd Marine Division (Major General Thomas E. Watson);[26]
Gunfire and Covering Support Group (TF 54) under Rear Admiral Morton L. Deyo with 10 old battleships, 11 cruisers and 30 destroyers.[27]
Expeditionary Troops (TF 56) under Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. with 10th Army.[26]
TF 56 was the largest force within TF 50 and was built around the 10th Army. The army had two corps under its command: the III Amphibious Corps, consisting of 1st and 6th Marine Divisions, and the XXIV Corps, consisting of the 7th and 96th Infantry Divisions. The 2nd Marine Division was an afloat reserve, and the 10th Army also controlled the 27th Infantry Division, earmarked as a garrison, and the 77th Infantry Divisions.[28]
In all, the Army had over 102,000 soldiers (of these, 38,000+ were non-divisional artillery, combat support and HQ troops, with another 9,000 service troops),[26] over 88,000 Marines and 18,000 Navy personnel (mostly Seabees and medical personnel).[28] At the start of the Battle of Okinawa, the 10th Army had 182,821 personnel under its command.[28] It was planned that General Buckner would report to Turner until the amphibious phase was completed, after which he would report directly to Spruance.
Although Allied land forces were entirely composed of American units, the British Pacific Fleet (BPF; known to the US Navy as Task Force 57) provided about ¼ of Allied naval air power (450 planes). It comprised a force which included 50 warships, of which 17 were aircraft carriers; while the British armored flight decks meant that fewer planes could be carried in a single aircraft carrier, they were more resistant to kamikaze strikes.[citation needed]
Although all the aircraft carriers were provided by Britain, the carrier group was a combined British Commonwealth fleet with British, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian ships and personnel.[citation needed] Their mission was to neutralize Japanese airfields in the Sakishima Islands and provide air cover against Japanese kamikaze attacks. Most of the air-to-air fighters and the small dive bombers and strike aircraft were US Navy carrier-based airplanes.
peter670520 wrote:
要是他們的部隊還有物資也有掩體，能集結的港口也不少，要怎麼掌握啊？
