 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - U.S. Navy Admirals Raymond Spruance naRichmond Turner vaida General Smith kutungamirira mauto okurwisa Okinawa. Vakanga varambwa neCinCPac, Admiral Nimitz nokuti General Smith akanga abvisa mukuru mukuru wemauto eU.S., Ralph Smith, mukati mekurwisa Saipan, uye ruvengo rwunoruramiswa pakati pevakuru vakuru veU.S. Army rwakanga rwuripo kune General Smith nemhaka yebasa rake chauvinism. Mukuru mukuru wemauto eU.S. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. akagadzwa kuti atungamirire kupinda muOkinawa panzvimbo pake. Nenzira yakafanana, Mukuru Mukuru Roy Geiger USMC, akaiswa mukutonga kwechiuto chechigumi muna June, 1945 apo Mukuru Mukuru Buckner akaurawa muchiito. 