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*Includes historic pictures of the fighting. *Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "If you die there will be no one left who knows the truth about the battle of Okinawa. Bear the temporary shame but endure it. This is an order from your army Commander." - Mitsuru Ushijima to Colonel Hiromichi Yahara.Near the end of 1944, as Allied forces were pushing across the Pacific and edging ever closer to Japan, plans were drawn up to invade the Ryuku islands, the most prominent of them being Okinawa. Military planners anticipated that an amphibious campaign would last a week, but instead of facing 60,000 Japanese defenders as estimated, there were closer to 120,000 on the island at the beginning of the campaign in April 1945. The Battle of Okinawa was the largest amphibious operation in the Pacific theater, and it would last nearly 3 months and wind up being the fiercest in the Pacific theater during the war, with nearly
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Author : Charles River Editors
Pages : 70 pages
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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ISBN-10 : 1544877706
ISBN-13 : 9781544877709
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