[Dog]

From April 1 to June 21, 1945, months of the most intense fighting in the Pacific ensue. The Japanese finally surrender. American losses total 50,000 dead, wounded or missing in action. Japanese losses total 110,000 dead, 7,400 taken prisoner and 7,800 aircraft destroyed.

Wow... words fail me.

[MEG33]

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/okinawa-battle.htm
Battle of Okinawa



"Okinawa was the largest amphibious invasion of the Pacific campaign and the last major campaign of the Pacific War. More ships were used, more troops put ashore, more supplies transported, more bombs dropped, more naval guns fired against shore targets than any other operation in the Pacific. More people died during the Battle of Okinawa than all those killed during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Casualties totaled more than 38,000 Americans wounded and 12,000 killed or missing, more than 107,000 Japanese and Okinawan conscripts killed, and perhaps 100,000 Okinawan civilians who perished in the battle."
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God bless our heroes ..
and we were right to drop the bombs...