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How this Event impacted the War :
Six weeks after
President Truman ordered the use of the atomic bomb.
On June 1, America attacks Yaeju-Dake and Yuza-Dake
The last American Attack
Operation Iceberg
Battle of Okinawa was the largest sea-land-air battle in the world, and it is also final battle of the Pacific War.
Also known as "Operation Iceberg"
General Buckner sends a message to General Ushijima
June 17, 1945
Battle of Okinawa
By: Abby & Brittany
On April 9, the 96th division began several attacks on Southern Okinawa.
Attack on Southern Okinawa
Capture of the island of Ie Shima
April 16, Navy planes fire rockets over Ie Shima
Marines pushed North to Yae-Take in Northern Okinawa
Attack of Northern Okinawa
America Prepares to Invade
On April 1st, US Navy bombarded Okinawa
Bloodiest battle fought in Pacific War, 240,000 American, and Japanese lives lost.
American Invasion of Okinawa
Geography
Were Japanese suicide pilots
Kamikazes Attack from the Air
Background
The Battle of Okinawa started in April 1945.
The capture of Okinawa was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East.
Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East but it was to be one of the major battles of World War Two
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army.
At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan.
By the end of the 82-day campaign, Japan had lost more than 77,000 soldiers and the Allies had suffered more than 65,000 casualties—including 14,000 dead
The Battle finally Ends
June 22, 1945
The Pacific War battle had come to an end.
April 6, 1945
Japanese Kamikaze
April 1, 1945
Invasion of Okinawa