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Ryukyu Shimpo, Ota Masahide, Mark Ealey and Alastair McLauchlan, Descent Into Hell: The Battle of Okinawa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Ota Masahide ,
Ryukyu Shimpo ,
Mark Ealey  and
Alastair McLauchlan
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The last engagement between the armies of Japan and the United States, the Battle of Okinawa, was fought in the final stages of the Pacific War, predominantly on the main island of Okinawa, but also on other small islands in the vicinity.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 48 , November 2014 , e4
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