* Henry A. Boyes-First Sergeant, Fifth Marines: Eugene Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, p. 213

At first, the college rejected the offer made by Okinawan officials, who suggested that a replica of the statue would be presented to the school if the original was returned to the island, however, after consulting both with the U. S. State Department and the college's board of trustees, then Rollins President Rita Bornstein accepted the offer and the statue was returned to Okinawa in 1995 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

At the same time, the political authorities on Okinawa saw the outlying islands as useful stopping points along a maritime trade route, and gradually enhanced their influence.

At the start of Battle of Okinawa 10th Army had 182, 821 men under its command.

At first, the Eighth deployed its B-52 bomber and KC-135 tanker units from the U. S. to operating bases in Guam, Okinawa and Thailand.

At that time, the 22 B-29s of the Twentieth Air Force 19th Bomb Group stationed at Andersen Field on Guam were the only aircraft capable of hitting the Korean peninsula, and this unit was ordered to move to Kadena Air Base on Okinawa and begin attacks on North Korea.

At the end of February, he sailed to Okinawa and finally to Siberia, where he had to change flagships: from the Pallada to the Diana.

At the end of 1979 he transferred to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan.

At the time of his selection, he was serving on the staff of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Okinawa, Japan.

At the final Battle of Okinawa, 13 Type 95s and 14 Type 97 Shinhoto medium tanks of the 27th Tank Regiment were grossly outnumbered by 800 American tanks.

At Tomimori Village near Kochinda Town in the far southern part of Okinawa, there were often many fires.

At dawn on 7 April, the Japanese force passed the Ōsumi Peninsula into the open ocean heading south from Kyūshū toward Okinawa.

At 10: 00, the Japanese force turned west to make it look like they were withdrawing, but at 11: 30, after being detected by two American PBM Mariner flying boats ( the Yamato fired a salvo with her bow guns using special " beehive shells " ( but could not prevent the two planes from shadowing the Japanese force ), they turned back towards Okinawa.

At the Battle of Iwo Jima and Battle of Okinawa, with armor-piercing warheads, it was found to be powerful enough to stop the American M4 Sherman tank.

At the mean time, Typhoon Kompasu was near Okinawa, Japan and did not take part in the Fujiwara interaction.

At the end of the war, ATC C-54s transported 11th Airborne Division personnel from Okinawa to Japan.

At that time, the 22 B-29s of the 19th Bombardment Group stationed at Andersen Field on Guam were the only aircraft capable of hitting the Korean peninsula, and this unit was ordered to move to Kadena air base on Okinawa and begin attacks on North Korea.

At the top of Mount Faron is a memorial dedicated to the 1944 Allied landings in Provence ( Operation Dragoon ), and to the liberation of Toulon.

At first, the Russian naval forces remained inactive and did not engage the Japanese, who staged unopposed landings in Korea.

At the same time, the U. S. 6th Army Group under General Jacob L. Devers was advancing towards Germany after their landings in southern France.

At Safi, the landings were mostly successful.

At Fedala, weather disrupted the landings.

At the time of the landings, only one organised unit was in place to oppose the allied advance toward the bridges ( the 16 SS Training Battalion camped in Wolfheze ) and their commander — Sepp Krafft — acted quickly to establish a blocking screen west of Oosterbeek.

At the same time Operation Titanic involved the RAF dropping fake paratroopers to the east and west of the Normandy landings.

At least 16 B-29s were shot down over North Korea, and as many as 48 were lost in crash landings or written off because of heavy damage after returning to base.

At 09: 30 on 9 January 1945, the U. S. 6th Army conducted an amphibious landing on the gulf, following a devastating naval bombardment, with 68, 000 troops landing on the first day alone and a total of 203, 608 in subsequent landings along a beachhead, stretching from Sual, Lingayen and Dagupan ( XIV Corps ) to the west, and San Fabian ( I Corps ) in to the east.

At the 2009 TPA annual meeting, concerns were raised about landings at the airport after the 11 pm closing time.

At first they were a small force of volunteers who carried out small raids against enemy occupied territory, but by 1943 their role had changed into lightly equipped assault infantry which specialised in spearheading amphibious landings.

At this point, Hitler was still obviously considering an invasion of Britain, and it was within this context that Student suggested a diversionary paratrooper attack on Northern Ireland to coincide with German landings on the south coast of England.

At around 7: 00 a. m. on the first day of the Australian and New Zealand landings at Anzac Cove, 25 April 1915, elements of the Australian force had pushed through to Lone Pine in an effort to destroy a Turkish artillery battery that had been firing down upon the landing beach.

At recreational drop zones, an area is generally set side for parachute landings.

At the time the RAF was relying on daylight bombing by tight formations of heavily defended bombers as its primary attack force, so night landings were not a major concern.

At the foot of the peninsula where the landings were made, there were only companies or platoons guarding the beaches.

At Bernal's memorial service, Zuckerman controversially downplayed Bernal's part in the Normandy landings saying that he was not cleared for the highest levels of security.

At V Beach, Helles, the landing troops — inexperienced at amphibious landings — were effectively slaughtered by the Ottoman defenders, most not even making it out of their landing craft.

At the main landings at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, six Victoria Crosses were awarded to 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers.

At these gatherings, Rashid used to tell stories about his South American tours 56 flights and landings in total.

At these locales sunlight is almost always available for conversion into electricity using solar panels, potentially making them good locations for future Moon landings.

At the end of the 18th century, settlers had dispersed into the region in several of these landings.

At Trondheim, Gruppe 2 also faced only minor resistance to their landings.

At the time of the U. S. landings, García, with skilled use of mobile artillery, controlled the interior of old Oriente Province, and prepared the landing places for the U. S. Army near Santiago.

At the time of the accident, air traffic controllers at LAX used all four runways for takeoffs and landings.