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Battle of Okinawa: The 82-Day Struggle That Shaped WWII’s End
In the blood-soaked spring of 1945, the Pacific War’s most devastating confrontation unfolded on a small Japanese island, ...
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THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA
The Thirty-Second Army was stationed in Okinawa and charged with fighting a war of attrition to delay the expected invasion of Japan as long as possible. Under the cover of a naval bombardment of ...
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New light on the Battle of Okinawa
At the end of June, the people of Okinawa in southern Japan commemorated the 74th anniversary of the fierce battle that engulfed them in the final stages of World War Two. The Battle of Okinawa ...
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Civilians on Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...