Command and Control of the U S Tenth Army During the Battle of

From 1 April 1945 to 21 June 1945, the United States Tenth Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner, Jr., executed Operation Iceberg--the seizure of Okinawa for use as a staging base for the expected invasion of Japan.

The Tenth Army, which included the U.S.

Army's XIV Corps and the U.S.

Marines Corps' I