Possible Clues:

• Landing site of 4/1/45
• Japanese city shown in book, in a Waterstones
• Site of 1945 fighting
• Japanese location, satisfactory after a fashion, but ultimately deficient
• Island some took in a war?
• All right in a West Africa island
• Off from Scotland to good home in coral island
• Pacific island
• Undertook, in a war, to capture island out east
• Japanese island captured by US in June nineteen forty five