BATTLE OF OKINAWA 1945沖縄決戦ＨＤ

The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg,[3] was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.[4][5] The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland (coded Operation Downfall). Four divisions of the U.S. 10th Army (the 7th, 27th, 77th, and 96th) and two Marine Divisions (the 1st and 6th) fought on the island while the 2nd Marine Division remained as an amphibious reserve and was never brought ashore. The invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air forces.　The battle has been referred to as the "Typhoon of Steel" in English, and tetsu no ame ("rain of steel") or tetsu no bōfū ("violent wind of steel") in Japanese. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of kamikaze attacks from the Japanese defenders, and to the sheer numbers of Allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle resulted in the highest number of casualties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Japan lost over 100,000 troops killed or captured, and the Allies suffered more than 50,000 casualties of all kinds. Simultaneously, tens of thousands of local civilians were killed, wounded, or committed suicide. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan to surrender just weeks after the end of the fighting at Okinawa.沖縄戦（おきなわせん、沖縄の戦い）とは、太平洋戦争（大東亜戦争）末期の1945年（昭和20年）、沖縄諸島に上陸したアメリカ軍を主体とする連合国軍­と日本軍との間で行われた戦いである。連合軍側の作戦名はアイスバーグ作戦（英: Operation Iceberg、氷山作戦）。第二次世界大戦における日本国内での最大規模の陸戦であり、また日米最後の大規模戦闘となった。「国内唯一の地上戦」と称される事があるが、­戦前当時は日本（大日本帝国）領だった南洋諸島におけるサイパンの戦いおよび、千島列島における占守島の戦い・樺太の戦い等があるという捉え方から適当ではない。また、1­9世紀末から現在に至るまで日本領である小笠原諸島硫黄島で行われた硫黄島の戦いがあるため、「（沖縄戦は）現在の日本の領土内では唯一の地上戦」という認識も誤りである­。

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[Work2SnowSki]

My Mother was with a Combat Field Hospital, 76th and were the 1st nurses to land on D +3, the stories of Okinawa and Saipan are something else. They set up next to Kadena airstrip.

[flyinDPOD]

@leelitw I expect because Taiwan was too far away from mainland Japan to use as a staging area for invasion. The fleet did not take every single japanese held island during the 'island hopping' campaign, only the strategically important ones. I suppose the American admirals did not consider Taiwan as strategically important.

[bonkare1]

・・・↓

[leelitw]

Why the battle was NOT in Taiwan island? Why the allies did NOT land Taiwan island?