1) US base site in the Pacific 2) Battle site of 1945 3) Birthplace of karate 4) City in Japan 5) City in Asia 6) City of Asia 7) City of Japan 8) Historic Japanese island 9) Island 10) Island in Ryukyu chain 11) Island in the west pacific 12) Island of 1945 combat 13) Island of southern Japan 14) Karate was developed there
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- the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
- a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting US marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans
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ken (prefecture), Japan, in the East China Sea. The prefecture is composed of the Ryukyu Islands (q.v.). Okinawa Island is the largest in the Ryukyu ... [1 related articles]
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The USS Okinawa is an American Iwo Jima Class amphibious assault ship of 11000 tons light displacement launched in 1961. The USS Okinawa is powered by two Combustion Engineering boilers providing a top speed of 23 knots and carries a crew of 686 including 48 officers plus 1746 troops and 1500 tons of aviation fuel and twenty CH-46D/E Sea Knight or ...
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The Main Island of the Ryukyu Archipelago
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n] - the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands 2. [n] - a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945)
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Okinawa campaign noun a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest v...
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Group of islands, 520 km/323 mi from the Japanese mainland, forming part of the Japanese Ryukyu Islands in the west Pacific; Okinawa is also the name of the largest island, and of a city on Okinawa; area 2,250 sq km/869 sq mi; population (1995 est) 1,318,000. The capital is Naha
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