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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 ...
Casualties and losses; 27,113 dead or missing, 74,501 wounded, 79 ships sunk and scrapped, 773 aircraft destroyed Casualties from Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa: 98,811–128,375 dead or missing, 17,000 wounded, 7,216 captured, 21 ships sunk and scrapped, 3,130 aircraft destroyed, 75,000–140,000 civilians dead or missing
The medals awarded for the battle accounted for 28% of the 82 awarded to Marines in World War II. [79] At the time of his death on 29 June 2022, Marine Hershel W. Williams was the last living Medal of Honor recipient from World War II. [80] He received his medal for actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
9 Raids from Iwo Jima and Okinawa. ... Casualties and losses; 5th Air Force: ... 836 B-29s staged the largest single raid of World War II, dropping 6,145 tons of ...
In Allied countries during the war, the "Pacific War" was not usually distinguished from World War II, or was known simply as the War against Japan. In the United States, the term Pacific theater was widely used. The US Armed Forces considered the China Burma India theater to be distinct from the Asiatic-Pacific theater during the conflict.
[citation needed] On the Allied side, 36 ships were sunk (but no cruisers or larger were sunk), 218 ships were damaged (including 8 aircraft carriers, 3 battleships, 2 cruisers and 33 destroyers), and 763 carrier aircraft were lost; US Navy kamikaze casualties throughout the war include over 4,900 sailors killed or missing, and 4,824 wounded. [2]
On February 19, 1945, men of the United States Marine Corps invaded the island of Iwo Jima, part of the Volcano Islands chain, in the North Pacific. This invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was a phase of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Landing beaches on Okinawa. The American invasion of the island of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, took place 1 April 1945. The Japanese military was determined to inflict a casualty rate so high that the U.S. government would choose not to invade the Japanese home islands.