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The Pinnacle, Battle of Okinawa
The Pinnacle was the name given to a 30-foot spire, atop a 450-foot ridge of coral approximately 1,000 yards southwest of Arakachi, Okinawa.〔''Okinawa: The Last Battle'', p. 107〕 Heavily fortified by the Japanese 62d Division, this outpost to Japan's main defenses at Shuri held up the U.S. 7th Division on 5–6 April 1945 with accurate and well-concealed machine gun, mortar and artillery fire.
==The Pinnacle as a defensive position==
Lieutenant Tanigawa had built his defenses around eight light and two heavy machine guns sited at the base of the hill. In trenches and pits riflemen well-supplied with grenades covered the dead spaces in front of the machine guns. The defenses were connected by the usual tunnels and trenches, affording underground mobility. On the top of the ridge were four 50 mm mortars, and on the reverse slope to the south were three more. Artillery check points had been established for 62d Division field pieces to the south. Barbed wire and mine fields protected the major approaches. Lieutenant Tanigawa could hardly have hoped to stop the Americans, but undoubtedly he expected to make the price of victory high.〔''Okinawa: The Last Battle'', p. 107〕
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