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Okinawa is a two-player board wargame where one player controls the American forces, and the other the Japanese forces. Having a small 17" x 22" hex grid map, basic rules and only 100 counters, this game is relatively simple, although at 80 turns, it is unusually long compared to the other games in the Island War box. [2]
Okinawa: The Last Battle. Washington DC: United States Army Center of Military History. ISBN 1-4102-2206-3. Archived from the original on 2010-11-08 full text online; Cass, Bevan G., ed. (1987) [1948]. History of the Sixth Marine Division. 1st (1948) Edition published by Infantry Journal Press, Washington, DC. 1987 reprint published by Battery ...
Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島 満, Ushijima Mitsuru, 31 July 1887 – 22 June 1945 [1]) was a Japanese general who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.He was the commanding general of the 32nd Army, which fought in the Battle of Okinawa during the final stages of the war.
The numbers correspond to recorded deaths during the Battle of Okinawa from the time of the American landings in the Kerama Islands on 26 March 1945 to the signing of the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945, in addition to all Okinawan casualties in the Pacific War in the 15 years from the Manchurian Incident, along with those who died in ...
Island War is a "quadrigame", four thematically-connected games that use the same basic rules. The four games in the box are: [1] Bloody Ridge: Turning Point on Guadalcanal: The Guadalcanal campaign, the first major American offensive in the Pacific.
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The Himeyuri students (ひめゆり学徒隊, Himeyuri Gakutotai, Lily Princesses Student Corps), sometimes called "Lily Corps" in English, was a group of 222 students and 18 teachers of the Okinawa Daiichi (First) Girls' High School [] and Okinawa Shihan Women's School [] formed into a nursing unit for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
In the Battle of Okinawa, Cactus Ridge was the name U.S. forces gave to a rise of land approximately 600 yards (550 m) southeast of Mashiki, Okinawa which commanded much of the ground between Uchitomari and Oyama, both of which lie along Highway No. 1.