okinawa_campaign (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *Okinawa campaign*:
NOUN	act	Okinawa campaign, Okinawa	a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945)

English > *Okinawa campaign*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	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 victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans.
Synonym	Okinawa
Instance of	campaign, military campaign	Several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)
Part of	World War II, World War 2, Second World War	A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
Region	Okinawa	The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands

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