The Battle of Okinawa was the single longest sustained carrier campaign of the Second World War. [ 32 ] The battle has been referred to as the "typhoon of steel" in English, known in Japanese as " tetsu no bōfū ".

2024年12月17日 · Battle of Okinawa (April 1–June 21, 1945), World War II battle fought between U.S. and Japanese forces on Okinawa, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands. The capture of Okinawa was seen as a precursor to an invasion of the Japanese home islands.

The battle for Okinawa dragged out over nearly three months and included some of the worst kamikaze attacks of the war. By the time Okinawa was secured by American forces on June 22, 1945, the United States had sustained over 49,000 casualties including more than 12,500 men killed or missing.

2009年10月29日 · The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. On April 1, 1945—Easter Sunday—the Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and...

2020年4月1日 · The Battle of Okinawa was the brutal final chapter in the fighting of the Pacific War. It was a battle that saw such horrific casualties - both military and civilian - that it forced the United States to look for alternatives to an invasion of Japan to bring the war to an end.

2020年4月1日 · The Battle of Okinawa, which began 75 years ago, was the last major battle of World War II — and the bloodiest of the Pacific campaign. At dawn on Easter, April 1, 1945, a fleet of 1,300...

2012年4月1日 · THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II sets forth in detail the nature of the problems faced, the methods used to solve them, and the mistakes made as well as the success achieved.

2020年4月1日 · Historian Vince O'Hara analyzes the Battle of Okinawa, the final "island hopping" campaign in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Okinawa grimly foreshadowed what the Allies faced in a battle for Japan. On 1 April 1945, an armada of 1,321 ships gathered in the far western Pacific off Okinawa.

In Okinawa’s craggy southern reaches, US soldiers and Marines battered a Japanese fortress as kamikaze aircraft rained down on the invasion fleet. The Battle of Iwo Jima.

2006年6月12日 · 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.