Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. Army, relieved Lt. Gen. Roy Geiger as Tenth Army commander on 23 June 1945. He ordered an intensive mop-up of southern Okinawa even though the official end of the campaign was marked on 22 June 1945. Army and marine units
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