The Invasion

The landing party consisted of:

22nd Marines (6th Mar Div) - assigned to Green 1 and 2

4th Marines (6th Mar Div) - assigned to Red 1, 2 and 3

29th Marines (6th Mar Div) - IIIAC reserve

7th Marines (1st Mar Div) - assigned to Blue 1 and 2

5th Marines (1st Mar Div) - assigned to Yellow 1 and 2

1st Marines (1st Mar Div) - division reserve

17th Infantry (7th Inf Div) - assigned to Purple 1 and 2

32nd Infantry (7th Inf Div) - assigned to Orange 1 and 2

184th Infantry (7th Inf Div) - divisional reserve

381st Infantry (96th Inf Div) - assigned to White 1, 2 and 3

383rd Infantry (96th Inf Div) - assigned to Brown 1, 2, 3 and 4,

382nd Infantry (96th Inf Div) - held as reserve & land behind the 381st

Reserves - 2nd Marine Div remained the Tenth Army Floating Reserve

27th Infantry Div tasked for Expeditionary Floating Reserve

81st Infantry Div would be the Area Reserve

On April 1, 1945

Operation Iceberg (L-1) began. By the end of the first day, 165,000 soldiers had may their way to land. The 2 main objectives was to take Yontan and Kadena airfields. Both where achieved easily with little to no resistance. This would later be greatly regreted by the Japanese Imperial Army (JIA).