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Show Generals Watch Front Line Action Vv x V ' " ' - Sp i " - , vr " "vV " - 1 5 I s ,-..--'' , 'v.. s i i .' , V , . V r i v v' v-. v. Marine Maj. Gen. Lemuel Sheperd, holding walking stick, and Lieutenant Lieu-tenant General Buckner, center, watch front line action from an Okinawa ; ridge as their forces storm Nana, capital of the island. The conquest of j this island, at frightful cost, possibly wound up the long and arduous strategy of "island hopping," which began with Guadalcanal in 1942. |