It made the European Theater look like a cakewalk in comparison.
Everything about the Pacific Theater was, and still is, more difficult. I’d like to visit Iwo Jima, but the island is open only one day a year. Transportation to the islands is via “tiny little airplane,” and a two or three week tour is horrendously expensive.
I doubt those soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Bulge thought it was a cake walk. We lost more there than at Okinawa.
Also the Germans lost less than we did which surprised me when I read it.