Battle in the Okinawa
- The battle of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, took place inApril 1, 1945 until June 21, 1945. It resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies and involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S.
- It was the last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of WWII.
- Japanese change their tatical of war and started to gain time. Japanese navy and army mounted mass air attacks by planes on one-way "suicide" missions. The Japanese also sent their last big battleship,on a similar mission with a few escorts. Those attacks were called the "special attack" kamikaze tactics.
- The commanding generals on both sides died in the course of this battle.
- Battle took place in an environment much more heavily populated than most Pacific islands.
Sources:
http://www.history.com/topics/battle-of-okinawa
http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-okinawa-operation-iceberg.htm
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Navajo Code Talkers
It was the language that gave U.S. the victory against Japanese.
After many triesusing different codes that were broken by enemies deciphers codes, a veteran of US in WWI "found" in a native group of India a language that other countries couldn't be able to known.
US took a little group were fluent in both: English and Navajo. Many of them were just school boys and lied about their age, just to have the opportunity to go and fight for their country and protect it from the Japanese. Twenty-nine Navajos were inducted into the Marines.
In the war, no messages were break. US took other 200 to learn Navajo. 
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002073F/thinkquest/Code_talkers.htm
http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-navajo-code-talkers.htmI
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