Yoza Dake
"Four miles south of the front line loomed another coral escarpment, the largest on the Okinawa battlefield. This was the Yuza-Dake / Yaeju-Dake, which formed a great wall across teh southern end of the island that had been visible since the early days of the campaign." - U.S. Army in WWII The War in the Pacific Okinawa the Last Battle. Historical Division Dept of the Army - pg 422.
| | What your looking at is a collapsed Japanese Blockhouse located at the top of a ridgeline |
| | Yours truly with a bottle and a Russian 5 kopek coin a Japanese soldier holed and wore as a good luck charm around the neck. That's a good find! The battle museaum on Okinawa has a large collection of these charms from all the conquered countries the Imperial soldiers went thru.
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| | That's Dwayne taking cover from rain while at Yoza. | |