Remember

[Dougie308]

I believe today marks the anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa. More people died during this battle than during the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. It also marks the largest use of kamikazes. The US Navy alone lost 4500 sailors at sea, lost 11 ships and had 22 damaged.

Godspeed.

 

[ArmyJerry]

Yep the Army kicked some jap ass there...

 

[cornhusker86]

Summary: The battle of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, took place in April-June 1945. It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies. This article gives an account of the 80 day plus battle for the Island of Okinawa which some have described as the “typhoon of steel”.

When two United States Marine and two Army divisions landed abreast on Okinawa on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, they faced an estimated 155,000 Japanese ground, air and naval troops holding an immense island on which an estimated 500,000 civilians lived in cities, towns and villages. Operation Iceberg was to be, in every way, vast when compared to any other operation undertaken by Allied forces in the Pacific War under U.S. Navy command. Indeed, using mainly divisions that had already undertaken island-hopping operations in the South and Central Pacific since mid-1942, the U.S. Pacific Fleet stood up the Tenth U.S. Army under Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., consisting of III Amphibious Corps and XXIV Army Corps — the largest land command ever assembled under the Navy’s direct control.

https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-okinawa-operation-iceberg.htm