Island hopping.............the Marines took island after island............assaulted Iwo Jima with 20,000 Marines..........b/c from the airfield there..........they could bomb Tokyo...........Hawaii was too far...........the US military did not have long range bombers then...
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The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Dates: Apr 1, 1945 – Jun 22, 1945
Did you know: Battle of Okinawa is the sixth-most lethal American battle by estimated number of Americans killed (Over 14,000~ killed).wikipedia.org
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