Operation Blindside

Operation Blindside was a notorious mission during the Battle of Okinawa. It happened on May 12, 1945. It was also notable for being the operation during which Alexandra Kendrick and other Task Force X-Ray agents died.
==Overview==
Task Force X-Ray had been commissioned to defend a field hospital from the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa. Things got ugly when the Imperial Japanese Army decided to lay siege to the hospital, intending to capture it and slaughter its occupants. However, Task Force X-Ray was not willing to go without a fight. Coordinating with the United States Marine Corps, they dug in and inflicted massive amounts of casualties against the Imperial Japanese forces before eventually being overrun. Wanting to buy time for the hospital staff and the wounded to escape, X-Ray's top agent Alexandra Kendrick ordered the staff and wounded to retreat to a nearby village while Kendrick herself and her comrades held the line at the hospital, despite objections from both Task Force X-Ray commander Charles Harms and Alexandra's own sister Hazel.
Eventually, Harms relented and gave orders to fortify the position while Alexandra and her men fought tooth and nail against the Imperial Japanese. Eventually, the Japanese forces broke through the American defenses and breached the hospital, resulting in a massacre on both sides. Most notably, Alexandra Kendrick kept on fighting, despite taking fire and bayonet injuries. Seeing that death or capture would be inevitable, Alexandra and her older sister Hazel Kendrick resolved to kill as many of the enemy as possible before possibly dying themselves. This led to Alexandra and Hazel coordinating a "last stand" with Kendrick's fellow X-Ray operatives. As the orderlies fled, one of them reported seeing Hazel and Alexandra manning a .30 caliber machinegun and cutting down hundreds, if not thousands, of Imperial Japanese soldiers despite sustaining bayonet and bullet injuries. 
By the time it was all over and American reinforcements arrived at the site to clean out the remaning Japanese occupation forces, Hazel and Alexandra had passed out from their injuries. Later, it is revealed that Alexandra died of her injuries, but Hazel survived.
==Known participants ==
*Alexandra Kendrick (KIA)
*Mark McCormick (KIA)
*Amber Bourget (Alive)
*Alan T. Clark (KIA)
*Steven Scott (KIA)
*Harold Grimm (KIA)
*Been Goodwin (KIA)
*Johanna Barts (Alive)