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| - The Battle of Okinawa was a battle between Imperial Japan, the Commonwealths, and the United States.
- After the defeat at Iwo Jima, the IJA was pushed back to Okinawa where they fought the Americans and lost. This defeat lead to the go ahead for Operation: Downfall. As part of the opening attack of Operation: Olympic heavy bombers took off from Okinawa to bomb targets on Kyushu to assist the landing forces. Now Sergeant Mike Sullivan fought on Okinawa despite having already won a Purple Heart with two oak-leaf clusters. He had picked up a submachine gun on Iwo Jima which he found more useful in close-quarter fighting than an M-1. Sullivan survived and went on to the invasion of Japan proper.
- The Battle of Okinawa, fought on the Japanese island of Okinawa, was the largest amphibious assault during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. It lasted from late March through June 1945. The battle has been referred to as the "Typhoon of Steel" in English, and tetsu no ame ("rain of steel") or tetsu no bōfū ("violent wind of steel") in Japanese. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of gunfire involved, and sheer numbers of Allied ships and armoured vehicles that assaulted the island. Okinawa had a large civilian population, of whom at least 150,000 were killed during the battle, while the Japanese army attempted to defend the island they had invaded centuries earlier.
- The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland (coded Operation Downfall). Four divisions of the U.S. 10th Army (the 7th, 27th, 77th, and 96th) and two Marine Divisions (the 1st and 6th) fought on the island while the 2nd Marine Division remained as an amphibious reserve and was never brought ashore. The invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air
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