First Casualty Comes Off Beach in Ryukyus. An American soldier of the 10th Army's 77th Division is the first casualty of the assault into the Ryukyu Island chain close to the Jap homeland. Wounded by a Jap sniper on the beach of Aka Shima in the Keramas, he is carried by Coast Guardsmen through the big bow doors into the tank deck of a Coast Guard-manned LST participating in the operation. The Aka Shima landing was six days before the Easter invasion of Okinawa.

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Keywords: 17-a2-212, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg