[Verginius Rufus]

I think VDH's relative who died on Okinawa (in the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill) was a first cousin, not an uncle.

My father was in the Sixth Marine Division which landed on Okinawa 80 years ago today. My father was wounded in the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill and evacuated, several days before Victor Hanson was killed. My father was in the 22nd Marines and Hanson was in the 29th so they did not know each other.

[MacNaughton]

I think VDH's relative who died on Okinawa (in the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill) was a first cousin, not an uncle.

You are correct. Thanks for the tip.

11/22/2017, A New Year's Toast To The Old Breed

... As a college student, I once pressed him about my cousin and his closest male relative, Victor Hanson, a corporal of the Sixth Marine Division who was killed on the last day of the assault on Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa. ...