A bloody hold on Ishimmi Ridge

17th May 1945: A graphic account of the first of three days suffering heavy casualties - as a Company from the US Army's 77th Division takes a position on Okinawa

An American radio operator relays the progress of an attack against well-entrenched Japanese troops on Okinawa as infantrymen from the Army’s 77th Division fire on a fortified position carved into an escarpment