3rd _____ We reach the Okinawa area this morning - we put our flash proof cover on our sack and was told we will ship with all our cloths on. By 11:00 we could see Okinawa & a lot of ships anchored around it. We passed t[h]rough a little about 20 miles wide with Okinawa on our starboard side. Once ... t[h]rough we were in the China sea. Were on the west side of island now & could see trucks on the beach _ we are just waiting for ord[ers] to bombard._________________
Since they were entering a battle zone, they started sleeping in their clothes so they could be at battle stations at a moment's notice.
Little = littoral, in this case, just south of Okinawa.
On the west side of the island were the Hagushi Beaches, where the Marines landed on April 1.
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