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| | Chapter One - Part Eight (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Airfield and port construction was concentrated in and around the main island of Okinawa in places like Iejima, Yomitan, Kadena, Shuri, Nishihara, Itoman, Minami Daito, and Oroku, but also further afield, in the southern regions of Miyako and Ishigaki. |
 | | Workers from Kin, for example, were sent to Yomitan, Iejima, or Kadena. |
 | | It contained 800 troops driven out of Iejima, 150 members of the tekketsu kinnotai and an unknown number of members of the secret yugekitai, or 'hit and run unit,' known as the gokyotai, or 'Defence Corps.' It will be recalled that these latter units were comprised of junior high school students and below conscription-age youths. |
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