Nakagawa had effectively used his underground network to vitiate American advantages in offshore firepower and command of the air. His forces had mostly eschewed the tactically futile banzai charge. They had made shrewd use of the terrain, fighting on ground of their own choosing. Those tactics would be repeated on a larger scale on islands nearer Japan in the battles to come in 1945. U.S. infantrymen had come to regard their enemy as a vicious and sadistic creature, barely human, who had to be rooted out of the ground and exterminated. All the same, they could not help but admire the enemy,
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