Nakagusuku Bay (中城湾, Nakagusuku-wan?) is a bay on the southern coast of Okinawa Island in Japan, at 26°13′N 127°52′E / 26.217°N 127.867°E / 26.217; 127.867Coordinates: 26°13′N 127°52′E / 26.217°N 127.867°E / 26.217; 127.867.
American soldiers nicknamed the bay Buckner Bay, after General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
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“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)