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Okinawa: The Last Battle, April 1945 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1975 that simulates the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Okinawa was originally published as one of four games in the popular collection Island War: Four Pacific Battles, but was also released as an individual game.
The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa (PDF). U.S. Marine Corps History Division. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 January 2021; Appleman, Roy; Burns, James; Gugeler, Russel; Stevens, John (1948). Okinawa: The Last Battle. United States Army Center of Military History. ISBN 1410222063.
Saipan: Conquest of the Marianas, June 1944: The Battle of Saipan. (Designed by Kip Allen) Leyte: Return to the Philippines: The return of General MacArthur. (Designed by Jay Nelson) Okinawa: The Last Battle, April 1945: The Battle of Okinawa. (Designed by Larry Pinsky) Each game has includes two to five scenarios. [2]
LCTs unloading at Yellow Beach, Okinawa, 13 April 1945.. This is the order of battle for the US invasion of the island of Okinawa, the largest island of the Ryukyu chain.This offensive, called Operation Iceberg by its planners, was the final Allied offensive in the Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II.
The Japanese 32nd Army was formed on March 13, 1944 as part of the last desperate defense effort by the Empire of Japan to deter possible landings of Allied forces in Okinawa and the surrounding Ryukyu Islands. The Japanese 32nd Army had 77,000 men (39,000 infantry in 31 battalions and 38,000 artillery, armor and combat service troops) plus the ...
Hatsushimo hit a U.S. air-dropped mine on 30 July 1945, near Maizuru, Japan, and was the 129th, and last, Japanese destroyer sunk in the war. [59] Maryland was kept out of the war following the kamikaze attacks. Okinawa was declared secure by Allied forces on 21 June 1945, [60] after an intense and costly battle.
At the start of Battle of Okinawa, Tenth Army had 182,821 men under its command. [ 1 ] In all, Tenth Army suffered 65,631 casualties during the campaign, with 34,736 being suffered by XXIV Corps, 26,724 by III Amphibious Corps, 520 to the tactical air force attached to Tenth Army, 2,636 to the Army garrison forces of Okinawa and Ie Shima , and ...
The Raid on Yontan was an Empire of Japan military operation carried out on the night of May 24–25, 1945 against Yontan Airfield on Okinawa.The airfield was recently seized by American forces during the first day of the Battle of Okinawa and was being used by United States Marine Corps and Army Air Force squadrons.