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During the naval battle, which started before the amphibious landings on Okinawa on 1 April, USS Franklin suffered over 800 killed and missing and USS Bunker Hill suffered 396 killed and missing. These were the first and third largest loss of life on damaged or sunken American aircraft carriers during World War II.
The 1945 Katsuyama killing incident was the killing of three African-American United States Marines in Katsuyama near Nago, Okinawa after the Battle of Okinawa on July 10, 1945, to August 13, 1946. Residents of Katsuyama had reportedly killed the three Marines for their repeated rape of village women during occupation of Okinawa and hid their ...
Medium tanks of the 713th Tank Battalion during a respite in the fighting on Okinawa. Renowned combat journalist Ernie Pyle shortly after being killed on Ie Shima. US Tenth Army Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., USA (KIA 18 Jun) Major General Roy S. Geiger, USMC (18 Jun thru 23 Jun) General Joseph W. Stilwell, USA (from 23 Jun)
Casualties were 28 killed (including six nurses) and 48 wounded, with considerable damage done to the ship. [345] [347] [348] USS Hope (AH-7) was attacked and damaged during the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Battle of Okinawa. [349] [350] [351] USS Relief was attacked and damaged at Guam on 2 April 1945. [352]
April 7 – Japanese battleship Yamato explodes after persistent attacks from U.S. aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa. April 30 – Adolf Hitler, along with his wife of one day Eva Braun, commits suicide. April 1 – WWII: Battle of Okinawa: The Tenth United States Army lands on Okinawa. April 4 – WWII:
The Cornerstone of Peace is a semi-circular avenue of stones engraved with the names of all the dead from the Battle of Okinawa, organized by nationality (or by ethnicity for Chinese, Taiwanese, Koreans, and Okinawans). The Memorial Path includes 32 memorial monuments as well as the place where Lieutenant General Ushima died by suicide.
Twenty-two historic artifacts that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa in World War II have been returned to Japan after a family from Massachusetts discovered them in their late father ...
Cornerstone of peace from a distance The Cornerstone of Peace, memorial to all those who died in the Battle of Okinawa. Okinawa Memorial Day (慰霊の日, Irei no Hi, lit. "the day to console the dead") is a public holiday observed in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture annually on June 23 to remember the lives lost during the Battle of Okinawa.