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Okinawa Counteroffensive

Japan · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1945

Mitsuru Ushijima4 May 1945

Okinawa · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Ushijima authorizes a broad counterattack that fails to break the American positions and causes severe Japanese losses.

Names involved

Mitsuru Ushijima

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