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    Nakagusuku Bay (中城湾, Nakagusuku-wan, Okinawan: Nakagushiku-widu) is a bay on the southern coast of Okinawa Island on the Pacific Ocean in Japan. The bay...
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    Nakagusuku (中城村, Nakagusuku-son, Okinawan: Nakagushiku) is a village located in Nakagami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2020, the...
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    Admiral W. S. Benson class troop transport. Nakagusuku Bay on the East side of Okinawa was nicknamed "Buckner Bay" in the 1940s by American military personnel...
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    near the Airport with another 122-hectare (300-acre) FTZ located at Nakagusuku Bay. Peach, a low-cost carrier (LCC) based at Kansai International Airport...
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    measured from the middle water level of Nakagusuku Bay ( 中 城 湾 , Nakagususku-wan ) and that of Miyake from the Ako Bay. The GSI featured in the novel Norwegian...
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  • consisting of Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia Japan Buckner Bay, a former name for Nakagusuku Bay on Okinawa Fort Buckner, a U.S. Army base on Okinawa United...
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    the southern end of Okinawa Island, on the east coast, overlooking Nakagusuku Bay. As of 2015, the town has a population of 18,410 and a population density...
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    in Nakagusuku Bay (called Buckner Bay by U.S. forces) unable to escape to the safety of open sea and facing waves up to 35 feet within the narrow bay. Twelve...
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    station. fleet recreation, pontoon pier (later training center) Nakagusuku Bay - Buckner Bay, naval base, depot Yomitan hospital Katchin Hanto, pier, seaplane...
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    the ship remained undamaged. The following day, Wichita steamed into Nakagusuku Bay to shell a coastal battery. Shells from the Japanese guns landed close...
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    facing east. The city occupies the southern rim of Kin Bay as well as the north of Nakagusuku Bay. The highest point in the city is Mount Ishikawa at 204...
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  • April 1945 1× Ki-61 I; Allied ship in Nakagusuku Bay. 11 April 1945 2× Ki-61 I; Allied ship in Nakagusuku Bay. 12 April 1945 1× Ki-61 I; Allied ship...
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    Japanese surrender. Once the work was completed, she steamed north to Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa, where she remained from 23 August to 20 September, awaiting...
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    despite the occasional Japanese submarine or plane. Fanshaw Bay anchored within Nakagusuku Bay, where she endured further kamikaze and submarine incursions...
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    On 14 July, she joined the Ro-Gō Transport Squadron, and sailed to Nakagusuku Bay. On 15 July, she was assigned to the 41st Destroyer Division, 10th Division...
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    the Royal Marines. In one paper exercise, the Royal Marines occupied Nakagusuku Bay unopposed and the MNBDO constructed base from which the fleet blockaded...
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    took on additional aircraft. Continuing westwards, she anchored at Nakagusuku Bay on 27 September, before leaving harbor the following day to evade Typhoon...
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  • crew were killed and 14 wounded. USS Forrest (DD-461) was on patrol in Nakagusuku Bay on 26 May 1945 when at 2249 she was hit by a "Val" kamikaze that struck...
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    Kacchin) is a peninsula on Okinawa Island. It is bordered by Nakagusuku Bay to the south, Kin Bay to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the east. The entire...
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  • assigned to USS Oldendorf crashes into the ocean 20 miles (32 km) east of Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa Prefecture. Of the three crew members aboard two were rescued;...
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    ship sailed from the Philippine Islands on 6 September for Buckner Bay (Nakagusuku Bay), Okinawa; Jinsen (Incheon), Korea; and Shanghai, China. She arrived...
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    south-east of the Katsuren Peninsula off Okinawa Island at the entrance of Nakagusuku Bay. Tsuken covers 1.88 square kilometres (0.73 sq mi) and has a population...
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    raging since 1 April 1945. On the day of her arrival at Nakagusuku Bay (also known as Buckner Bay) at Okinawa, Southard almost suffered another suicide...
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    she steamed for Okinawa, but was only lightly damaged. She arrived at Nakagusuku Bay the following day and was able to transfer 310 survivors to the light...
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    Okinawa on 30 May 1945 arriving on 3 June enterering Nakagusuku Bay (renamed by the Americans "Buckner Bay") with the second echelon of the 12th Detachment...
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  • Okinawa Nakagawa, Tokushima Nakagawa Hidemasa Nakagawa, Fukuoka Nakagusuku Bay Nakagusuku, Okinawa Nakahama Manjiro Chūya Nakahara Nakahechi, Wakayama Nakajima...
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    patrolling was broken by the escort of transports from Hagushi Beach to Nakagusuku Bay on 2 May and a fruitless engagement with a G3M Nell bomber. While stationed...
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    Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa with ammunition. The ships: SS Kota Agoeng, SS Cape Constance and SS Greenville Victory were in her convoy. From Nakagusuku Bay...
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    USS Industry ran aground in a typhoon and sank on October 9, 1945 in Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa. USS Loyalty grounded and destroyed on January 12, 1946 near...
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  • Battle of Okinawa: The Shin'yō-class suicide motorboats were sunk in Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa. Uta  Kriegsmarine World War II: The repair ship, a converted...
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