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Battle of Okinawa

Students Assigned: Gianna-Who won, information about the battle, MLA citation and pictures Adam-Significance, creation of first hand account, primary source, MLA citation.

=__**Battle Of Okinawa** __= =**Date: April 1st, 1945. To June 21st, 1945.** = **Location: Okinawa Island in Japan.** **By: Adam Edson and Gianna D'Ambruoso**

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**__Six Pieces of Information of what happened.__** "The Battle of Okinawa." //History Learning Site//. Web. 24 May 2011. < @http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_okinawa.htm >
 * 1) Kamikaze- which were Japanese pilots who flew into American warships to try and sink them. Those attacks were being experienced by the American navy anchored off of Okinawa.
 * 2) The real battle was on the south part of the island. On April 4th, the XIV Corps- which were infantry divisions. Ran into the Machinato line, and the American forces faced heavy losses during this.
 * 3) The American landing was on Hagushi Bay on the west side of the land. It happened to have a period of long bombardment but American’s forces were open to attack form Japanese fighters flying out of Japan itself.
 * 4) May 3rd  the Japan leader Ushijima started a counter-attack but it failed. Then by may 21st Ushijima told his men to pullback from the Shuri Line against the Americans.
 * 5) The Americans came up with a plan called "Operation Iceberg."
 * 6) The Japanese put up a desperate fight during the Battle of Okinawa making it one of the bloodiest land battles of the war seeing that the Japanese lost over 100,000 troops and Americans 12,000.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Who won this Battle.** __


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">The United States won the Battle of Okinawa on June 21st, 1945. They raised the American flag on the Battle field to represent a sign that they had won against Japan.
 * ======<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The United States knew that Okinawa would be the perfect view-point to invade on Japan. They came up with a mission called "Operation Iceberg." In this mission they planned to attack on every side of the Japanese landing. Sending their troops to be strong and face against them with weapons and corps marching through. ======

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<span style="color: #2300ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 300%; text-align: center;">First Hand Account Our unit arrived at the island of Okinawa and took shelter on some Islands off the coast until the landing was commenced. There were kamikaze attacks and one night a kamikaze got through and hit a ship right next to us. Luckily nobody was killed with exception for the Japanese pilot. We met no resistance from the island when we landed. As we moved north we had more resistance. Small groups of soldiers fought bravely but they either surrendered or were killed. Our Army going south had a lot of resistance, this Army was moved north and Marines moved south. After we brought our heavy tanks in we kept pushing and pushing and pushing. Finally we broke the spirit of most of the Japanese soldiers and they moved to the rear until we finally won the battle. After the fighting had stopped i felt really bad because at the final battle area because of the amount of Japanese soldiers that jumped off the cliffs and killed themselves. <span style="color: #0024ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 300%; text-align: center;">Primary Source http://www.virtualokinawa.com/about_okinawa/articles/battle.html On this website there is and email from Bob Doktor. He was a U.S. Marine for 27 years before retiring and was in the Battle of Okinawa. He was one of 12,520 Americans that were involved in the Battle of Okinawa. He is old and does not remember much but he knew a lot about the Battle of Okinawa.