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Coordinates: 26°30′N 128°00′E / 26.5°N 128°E / 26.5; 128
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Battle of Okinawa
Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II
Two Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines advance on Wana Ridge on 18 May 1945.
A U.S. Marine from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines on Wana Ridge provides covering fire with his Thompson submachine gun, 18 May 1945.
Date1 April – 22 June 1945[1]
Location26°30′N 128°00′E / 26.5°N 128°E / 26.5; 128
Result Allied victory
Territorial
changes
Okinawa occupied by the United States until 1972
Belligerents
Ground Forces:
 United States
Naval Support:
United States United States
 United Kingdom
 Canada
 New Zealand
 Australia
 Japan
Commanders and leaders
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. 
Roy Geiger
Joseph Stilwell
Chester W. Nimitz
Raymond A. Spruance
William Halsey, Jr.
Sir Bernard Rawlings
Mitsuru Ushijima 
Isamu Chō 
Hiromichi Yahara (POW)
Minoru Ōta 
Seiichi Itō 
Units involved

Ground units:
Tenth Army

Naval units:
Fifth Fleet

Ground units:
Empire of Japan Thirty-Second Army



Naval units:
2nd Fleet
Combined Fleet
Strength
541,000 in Tenth Army
183,000 combat troops[2] rising to c. 250,000[3]
86,000 Japanese soldiers,
20,000 Okinawan conscripts[4]
Casualties and losses
United States American

Manpower:
20,195 dead[5][6][7]

  • 12,520 killed in action[8]
55,162 wounded[5][9][10]
Material:
12 destroyers sunk
15 amphibious ships sunk
9 other ships sunk
386 ships damaged
763[11]-768[12] aircraft
225 tanks
Empire of Japan Japanese
Manpower:
From 77,166 killed[13] to 110,000 killed (U.S. estimate)[14]
More than 7,000 captured[14]
Material:
1 battleship sunk
1 light cruiser sunk
5 destroyers sunk
9 other warships sunk
1,430 aircraft lost[15]
27 tanks destroyed
743 artillery pieces, anti-tank guns, and anti-aircraft guns
40,000–150,000 civilians killed out of some est.300,000[14]
Bdakers/sandbox is located in Japan
Bdakers/sandbox
Location within Japan
  1. ^ "Chapter XVIII: The Battle Ends". army.mil. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  2. ^ Bill Sloan: The Ultimate Battle pg. 18
  3. ^ Keegan: The Second World War pg. 567
  4. ^ Hastings: Retribution pg. 370
  5. ^ a b Keegan: The Times Atlas of the Second World War pg. 169
  6. ^ The National Archives: Heroes and Villains retrieved 22 July 2015
  7. ^ William T. Garner: Unwavering Valor ch. 12.
  8. ^ Frank, p. 71
  9. ^ The National Archives: Heroes and Villains Retrieved 22 July 2015
  10. ^ Garner: Unwavering Valor ch. 12.
  11. ^ Keegan: The Second World War pg. 573
  12. ^ "The Battle of Okinawa" Retrieved 28 Dec. 2015
  13. ^ "The Cornerstone of Peace." Kyushu-Okinawa Summit 2000: Okinawa G8 Summit Host Preparation Council, 2000. Accessed 9 Dec 2012. "The Cornerstone of Peace - number of names inscribed". Okinawa Prefecture. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  14. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference mcg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Giangreco Hell to Pay (2009) pg. 91