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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 ...
..The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. ... Battle of Okinawa: 1945: World War II: 113,920 [150] –158,400 [151]
Battle of Okinawa: April 1, 1945 June 22, 1945 Okinawa, Japan Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign 51,429 (12,513 killed and 38,916 wounded) [3] Allied victory Japan largest amphibious battle of the Pacific theatre of World War II; Ended in heavy casualties for both sides; Large-scale deaths of Okinawan civilians. Ended in U.S. occupation of Okinawa
The Sixth division was credited with over 23,839 enemy soldiers killed or captured, [16] and with helping to capture 2 ⁄ 3 of the island, [17] but at the cost of heavy casualties, [18] including 576 casualties on one day (May 16) alone, [19] a day described as the "bitterest" fighting of the Okinawa campaign where "the regiments had attacked ...
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 ...
Okinawa Prefectural Peace Park. The site chosen for the memorial is Mabuni Hill in Itoman City, site of the Japanese headquarters and scene of heavy fighting in late June 1945 at the end of the Battle of Okinawa. [2] [9] [10] The area forms part of the Okinawa Senseki Quasi-National Park (沖縄戦跡国定公園). [11]
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 ...
Between 10 and 25% of the civilian population of Okinawa died as a result of the battle there. [127] A worst-case scenario, published on July 21, 1945, by the physicist William B. Shockley , predicted that "at least" 5 to 10 million Japanese – military and civilians – could die, with a corresponding American casualty total of up to 4 million.