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   Aug 1, 2001 · Battle of Okinawa. : George Feifer. Rowman & Littlefield, Aug 1, 2001 - History - 520 pages. A landmark text on the greatest land battle of the Pacific War.

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   • Title: Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb

2. www.ibiblio.org › hyperwar › USAJapan's Battle of Okinawa - The Public's Library and Digital ...

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   Japan's Battle of Okinawa, the newest of the Leavenworth Papers series, takes us into the world of the modern infantryman and illustrates in vivid detail Clausewitz dictum that combat is to war as cash payment is to commerce.

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3. www.historynet.com › battle-of-okinawa-theBattle of Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War

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   Jun 12, 2006 · Okinawa became the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 Japanese died, a frightening number matched only by the tally of unfortunate Okinawan citizens who perished in the fighting. Army casualties of more than 4,600 dead and 18,000 wounded were almost equaled by 3,200 Marines dead and 13,700 wounded.

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   Sep 9, 2024 · Battle of Okinawa - Intensified, Collapsed, Resistance: The elements of the 10th Army that had moved south toward the main population centres of Naha and Shuri encountered the fiercest kind of resistance.

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5. archive.org › details › firstmarinedivis00stocThe First Marine Division on Okinawa : 1 April - 30 June 1945

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   Part I -- Table of contents -- List of maps -- Introduction -- Part II -- From the Russells to Machinato -- The division moves south -- The Jichaku Plateau --...

6. archive.org › details › battleofokinawat0000otamThe Battle of Okinawa : the typhoon of steel and bombs

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   World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island, Military campaigns, Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History, Japan -- Okinawa Island Publisher Tokyo : Kume Pub. Co.

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   Why is Japan's Battle of Okinawa so important?

   • Japan's Battle of Okinawa, the newest of the Leavenworth Papers series, takes us into the world of the modern infantryman and illustrates in vivid detail Clausewitz dictum that combat is to war as cash payment is to commerce.

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   How is the Battle of Okinawa known?

   • The Battle of Okinawa, 1 April to 22 June 1945, is known to Englishlanguage readers through a variety of accounts, both official and commercial. Some of these works focus on operations, and some provide personal perspectives, so that most major features of the American experience on Okinawa are thoroughly known.

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   Why was Okinawa important in WW2?

   • Okinawa was the most sanguinary of the Pacific island battles of World War II. Its occurrence came at a point in the war when both combatants had accumulated years of experience in planning and executing complex operations on island terrain and had developed an array of fearsomely lethal weapons whose doctrines of employment were in full bloom.

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   How did the fighting on Okinawa compare to World War 1?

   • The fighting on Okinawa had features that were all its own, but even so its dynamics bore a startling resemblance to the fierce no-man's-land fighting of World War I. The conditions of warfare for both sides, but especially for the Japanese, were governed by the reality of the caves.

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   What kind of resistance did the 10th Army face in the Battle of Okinawa?

   • Battle of Okinawa - Intensified, Collapsed, Resistance: The elements of the 10th Army that had moved south toward the main population centres of Naha and Shuri encountered the fiercest kind of resistance. As on Iwo Jima, the Japanese fought with great tenacity and succeeded in making the Americans expend heavy casualties for small gains.

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   Was the Okinawan War a World War 1 offensive?

   • In many respects, the whole Okinawan struggle resembled a World War I offensive in terms of the conditions the respective sides faced. Even so, the IJA cave systems had a personality different from the Western Front trench systems.

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8. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsThe Battle for Okinawa. By Colonel Hiromichi Yahara ...

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   Mar 26, 2010 · Abstract. The Battle for Okinawa. By Colonel Hiromichi Yahara. Translated By Roger Pineau and Masatoshi Uehara, with an introduction and commentary by Frank B. Gibney. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1995. xxv, 245 pp. $24.95. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2010.