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==优良条目候选==
== 未翻譯內容 ==
:''以下内容移动自[[Wikipedia:優良條目候選]]（[{{fullurl:Wikipedia:優良條目候選|oldid=13278269}} 最后修订版本]）''
{{article|沖繩島戰役}}，分类：戰役，提名人：Tonysmith
*{{支持}}：提名人票。內容詳盡出色——Tonysmith 2010年5月21日 (五) 13:14 (UTC)
*{{中立}}，怪怪的。--<span style="color: #007FFF;">'''[[用戶:j87j8787|海藻腦袋]]'''</span>※[[User talk:j87j8787|找奧林帕斯天神請留言]] 2010年5月21日 (五) 13:19 (UTC)
**為何?－—Tonysmith 2010年5月21日 (五) 14:25 (UTC)
*{{支持}}，符合優良條目的標準—[[User:ArikamaI|ArikamaI 奮戰特色複審]]（[[User talk:ArikamaI|謝絕廢話]]） 2010年5月21日 (五) 15:29 (UTC)
*{{支持}}，好--[[User:圍棋一級|圍棋一級]] ([[User talk:圍棋一級|留言]]) 2010年5月22日 (六) 05:32 (UTC)
*{{反对}}--这几个月Tonysmith你推荐的优良条目有哪个通过了？为何不自我检查一下？
**战斗序列的部分缺乏来源，例如参战人数、单位。
**之后此地被变成另一个空袭日本（本土？）的空军基地。
**美国海军F4U海盗式战斗机正炮击一个日军在冲绳岛防守之山洞。从图上看，用火箭弹一词应该更为合适。
**山岥上很容易找到蛆虫。此处还有一个外部链接。
**许多日军囚犯（士兵？）是琉球人及在不久前才被征召入伍参加战斗。
**在一些战役，例如在硫磺岛，但并未涉及平民，但冲绳有大量原住民平民。不知所云。
**克服冲绳平民的抗拒是得益于宣传单张（传单？）。
**影响还可以扩充。[[User:zjc263|蓝色的顶夸克]]-[[User talk:zjc263|对撞机]]|[[Special:Contributions/zjc263|气泡室]]- 2010年5月22日 (六) 05:50 (UTC)
*{{反对}}同上-[[User:Biŋhai|Biŋhai]] ([[User talk:Biŋhai|留言]]) 2010年5月22日 (六) 14:03 (UTC)
*{{支持}}:資料詳細及題目是其他人沒有嘗試提出的，值得被提名。——[[User:Tfung|東尼]] ([[User talk:Tfung|留言]]) 2010年5月23日 (一) 01:18 (UTC)
*{{反对}}，“相关作品”部分也未免太简单了吧？---{[[user:shizhao|百無一用是書生]]}- (<big>[[User talk:Shizhao|&#9742;]]</big>) 2010年5月24日 (一) 03:32 (UTC)
:''移动完毕''—[[User:Istcol|Istcol]] ([[User talk:Istcol|留言]]) 2010年5月29日 (六) 16:45 (UTC)


== 關於自殺部份 ==
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 gunfire involved, and sheer numbers of [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] ships and armoured vehicles that assaulted the island. Okinawa had a large civilian population, of whom at least 150,000 were killed during the battle, while the Japanese army attempted to defend the island.


DISCOVERY給的解釋是說：因為沖繩島民因為愛國心沒有本土的大和民族那麼重，所以自殺率較少。僅供參考。--[[User:南風先生|先講結論：瓦倫達效應～海水退潮就知道誰沒穿褲子]]（[[User talk:南風先生|留言]]） 2015年2月12日 (四) 16:45 (UTC)
The Allies were planning to use Okinawa as a staging ground for [[Operation Downfall]], the invasion of the Japanese mainland; however, after the [[atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]] in August 1945 and the [[Soviet Union]]'s declaration of war on Japan, [[Surrender of Japan|Japan surrendered]] and [[World War II]] ended.


== 关于 自殺命令爭議 ==
==Japanese preparations==
Realizing that he could never defend the entire island, General [[Mitsuru Ushijima]] centered his defense around the historical capital, [[Shuri Castle]], a medieval fortress of the ancient Ryukyuan kings, and the steep ridges on which it was built. This provided the Japanese with a heavy defense line that could be [[Flanking maneuver|flanked]] only from the sea.


我发现有单独的条目，是否应该请将本章节缩短，并扩充上面的主条目，谢谢 --[[User:Hahahaha哈|hahahaha哈]]（[[User talk:Hahahaha哈|留言]]） 2016年4月10日 (日) 19:58 (UTC)
For the first time in the Pacific War, the Japanese had ample time to dig elaborate fortifications, much as they had on [[Iwo Jima]], and they also had large numbers of tanks and artillery pieces. This relative abundance of [[materiel]]&mdash;matched with thousands of troops and the knowledge of three years fighting the U.S.&mdash;ensured that the Okinawa defenses would be the hardest that the U.S. faced during the war. Ushijima knew the Allies could not be stopped, but he wanted to make them pay for every yard of advance.


最後一句話“法院承認軍隊參與了集體自殺和謀殺後自殺，'''理由是士兵分發手榴彈自殺和事實上沒有記錄集體自殺在沒有駐紮軍隊的島嶼出現'''”應該是翻譯的問題，明顯的語法錯誤並且意思不通順。想表達的意思應該是“沒有駐扎軍隊的島嶼上實際上沒有記錄到集體自殺事件”之類的意思，因為不擅長英文所以無法確認原文獻的內容，擅長英文的朋友麻煩可以重新翻譯下嗎？謝謝--[[User:黑色騎士團員|黑色騎士團員]]（[[User talk:黑色騎士團員|留言]]） 2017年2月17日 (五) 06:56 (UTC)
==Order of battle==
===Land===
The U.S. land campaign was controlled by the [[US Tenth Army|Tenth Army]], commanded by [[Lieutenant General]] [[Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.]] The army had two [[corps]] under its command, [[III Marine Expeditionary Force|III Amphibious Corps]] under [[Major General]] [[Roy Geiger]], consisting of [[U.S. 1st Marine Division|1st]] and [[U.S. 6th Marine Division|6th]] Marine Divisions, and [[U.S. XXIV Corps|XXIV Corps]] under Major General [[John R. Hodge]], consisting of the [[7th Infantry Division (United States)|7th]] and [[96th Infantry Division (United States)|96th]] Infantry Divisions. The [[U.S. 2nd Marine Division|2nd Marine Division]] was an afloat reserve, and Tenth Army also controlled the [[US 27th Infantry Division|27th]], earmarked as a garrison, and [[77th Infantry Division (United States)|77th]] Infantry Divisions. In all, Tenth Army contained 102,000 [[United States Army|Army]], 88,000 [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]], and 18,000 [[United States Navy|Navy]] personnel.

The Japanese land campaign (mainly defensive) was conducted by the 77,000 strong [[Japanese Thirty-Second Army]]. It initially consisted of the 9th, 24th, and 62nd Divisions, and the 44th Independent Mixed Brigade. The 9th Division was moved to [[Taiwan]] prior to the invasion, resulting in shuffling of Japanese Defensive plans. Primary resistance was to be led in the south by Lieutenant General [[Mitsuru Ushijima]], his chief of staff, Lieutenant General [[Isamu Cho]] and his chief of operations, Colonel [[Hiromichi Yahara]]. Yahara advocated a defensive strategy, whilst Cho advocated an offensive one. In the north, Colonel [[Takehido Udo]] was in command.

===Sea===
====U.S. Navy====
The [[U.S. Navy]] contributed the bulk of the ships and airplanes involved in the operation. Most of the air-to-air fighters and the small dive-bombers and strike aircraft were U.S. Navy [[aircraft carrier|carrier-based]] airplanes. The Japanese had used [[kamikaze]] tactics since the [[Battle of Leyte Gulf]], but for the first time, they became a major part of the defense. Between the American landing on Easter Sunday and [[May 25]], seven major kamikaze attacks were attempted, involving more than 1,500 planes. Almost a score of American ships were sunk and twenty-five others damaged.<ref>John Toland, ''The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945'', Random House, 1970, p. 713</ref> The total strength of the Allied fleet at Okinawa was 1,300 ships, including 40 [[aircraft carrier|carriers]], 18 [[battleship]]s, and 200 [[destroyer]]s. The U.S. Navy sustained greater casualties in this operation than in any other battle of the war.

====British Commonwealth====
Although the land battle was an entirely U.S. operation, the [[British Pacific Fleet]] (BPF; known to the U.S. Navy as Task Force 57) provided about 20% of Allied naval air power. The fleet was a combined [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]] carrier group with [[United Kingdom|British]], [[Canada|Canadian]], [[New Zealand]] and [[Australia]]n ships and personnel. Their mission was to neutralize Japanese airfields at Sakishima Gunto.

==Naval battle==
[[Image:USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes.jpg|thumb|250px|USS ''[[USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)|Bunker Hill]]'' burns after being hit by two ''[[kamikaze]]'' in 30 seconds]]

The British Pacific Fleet was assigned the task of neutralizing the Japanese airfields in the [[Sakishima Islands]], which it did successfully from [[March 26]] until [[April 10]]. On [[April 10]], its attention was shifted to airfields on northern [[Taiwan|Formosa]]. The force withdrew to San Pedro Bay on [[April 23]]. Although by then a commonplace event for the U.S. Navy, this was the longest time that a Royal Naval fleet of that size had been maintained at sea.
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From [[May 4]], BPF returned to action, subduing the airfields as before, this time with naval bombardment as well as aircraft. Several ''kamikaze'' attacks caused significant damage, but since the British used [[armored flight decks]] on their aircraft carriers, they only experienced a brief interruption to their force's objective. In the two month battle for Okinawa, the Japanese flew 1,900 ''kamikaze'' missions, sinking dozens of Allied ships and killing more than 5,000 U.S. sailors.

===坊之岬海海戰===
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[[Image:Yamato battleship explosion.jpg|thumb|left|Battleship ''[[Japanese battleship Yamato|Yamato]]'' explodes]]

Perhaps the most dramatic action of the naval campaign occurred far from Okinawa: the attempted kamikaze attack by a strike force of Japanese surface vessels led by the battleship ''[[Japanese battleship Yamato|Yamato]]''. The ''Yamato'' and other vessels in [[Operation Ten-Go]] were intercepted shortly after leaving Japanese home waters.

Under attack from more than 300 carrier aircraft over a two day span, the world's largest battleship sank on [[April 7]] [[1945]], long before she could reach Okinawa, where the battleship had been ordered to fight her way through enemy naval forces, then beach herself and fight from shore; using her guns as [[artillery]] and her crewmen as [[naval infantry]]. U.S. torpedo bombers were instructed to only aim for one side to prevent effective counter flooding by the battleship's crew, and hitting preferably the bow or stern, where armor was believed to be the thinnest. Part of the ''Yamato's'' screening force, which included one cruiser, was also sunk. After the sinking, the Japanese Navy ceased operations and was not a participant in the remainder of the war.

==Land battle==
The land battle took place over about 87 days from [[26 March]] [[1945]].

The first Americans ashore were soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division, who landed in the Kerama Islands ([[Kerama Retto]]), fifteen miles west of Okinawa on [[March 26]] [[1945]]. Subsidiary landings followed, and the Kerama group was secured over the next five days. In these preliminary operations, the [[77th Infantry Division]] suffered 31 dead and 81 wounded, while Japanese dead and captured numbered over 650. The operation provided a protected anchorage for the fleet and eliminated the threat from suicide boats. On [[March 31]] marines of the Fleet Marine Force Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion landed without opposition on Keise Shima, four islets just eight miles west of the Okinawan capital of Naha. [[155 mm Long Tom]]s went ashore on the islets to cover operations on Okinawa.

===Northern Okinawa===
[[Image:Ww2 158.jpg|250px|thumb|A Marine of the [[U.S. 1st Marine Division|1st Marine Division]] fires on a Japanese [[sniper]] with his [[Thompson submachine gun|Thompson]] as his companion ducks for cover]]
The main landing was made by XXIV Corps and III Amphibious Corps on the Hagushi beaches on the western coast of Okinawa on L-Day, [[April 1]], which was both [[Easter]] Sunday and [[April Fools' Day]] in [[1945]]. The 2d Marine Division conducted a demonstration off the Minatoga beaches on the southeastern coast to confuse the Japanese about American intentions and delay movement of reserves from there.

Tenth Army swept across the south-central part of the island with relative ease by World War II standards, capturing the [[Kadena Air Base|Kadena]] and the [[Yomitan Air Base|Yomitan airbases]]. In the light of the weak opposition, General Buckner decided to proceed immediately with Phase II of his plan - the seizure of northern Okinawa. The 6th Marine Division headed up the Ishikawa Isthmus. The land was mountainous and wooded, with the Japanese defenses concentrated on Yae-Take, a twisted mass of rocky ridges and ravines on the Motobu Peninsula. There was heavy fighting before the marines finally cleared the Motobu Peninsula on [[April 18]].

Meanwhile, the 77th Infantry Division assaulted Ie Shima, a small island off the western end of the peninsula on [[April 16]]. In addition to conventional hazards, the 77th Infantry Division encountered suicide bombers, and even to Japanese women armed with spears. There was heavy fighting before Ie Shima was declared secured on [[April 21]] and became another air base for operations against Japan.

Few U.S. soldiers encountered the feared [[Habu]] snake and soon discarded the cumbersome leggings designed to protect them from snakebite.

===Southern Okinawa===
[[Image:OkinawaMarinesDeadJapanese.jpg|250px|thumb|Marines pass through a destroyed small village where a Japanese soldier lays dead]]
[[Image:OkinawaMarineCaveDemolition.jpg|thumb|250px|A Marine demolition crew watch explosive charges explode and destroy a Japanese cave]]
[[Image:Corsair fighter firing on Okinawa.jpg|thumb|Corsair fighter firing rockets in the support of the troops on Okinawa]]

While the Marines cleared northern Okinawa, XXIV Corps wheeled south across the narrow waist of Okinawa. The 7th and 96th Infantry Divisions encountered fierce resistance from Japanese troops holding fortified positions on high ground and engaged in desperate hand-to-hand fighting in west-central Okinawa along Cactus Ridge, about five miles northwest of Shuri. By the night of [[April 8]] the XXIV Corps had cleared these and several other strongly fortified positions. They suffered over 1,500 battle casualties in the process, while killing or capturing about 4,500 Japanese, yet the battle had only just begun, for it was now realized they were merely outposts guarding the Shuri Line.

The next American objective was Kakazu Ridge, two hills with a connecting saddle that formed part of Shuri's outer defenses. The Japanese had prepared their positions well and fought tenaciously. Fighting was fierce. Japanese soldiers hid in caves armed with hidden machine guns and explosives; American forces often lost many men before clearing the Japanese out from each cave or other hiding place. The Japanese would send the Okinawans at gunpoint out to acquire water and supplies for them, which induced casualties among civilians. The American advance was inexorable but resulted in massive casualties sustained by both sides.

As the American assault against Kakazu Ridge stalled, General Ushijima, influenced by General Cho, decided to take the offensive. On the evening of [[April 12]] 32nd Army attacked American positions across the entire front. The Japanese attack was heavy, sustained, and well organized. After fierce, close fighting the attackers retreated, only to repeat their offensive the following night. A final assault on [[April 14]] was again repulsed. The entire effort led 32d Army's staff to conclude that the Americans were vulnerable to night infiltration, but that their superior firepower made any offensive Japanese troop concentrations extremely dangerous, and they reverted to their defensive strategy.

The 27th Infantry Division, which had landed on [[April 9]] took over on the right, along the west coast of Okinawa. General Hodge now had three divisions in the line, with the 96th in the middle, and the 7th on the east, with each division holding a front of only about a mile and half.

Hodge launched a new offensive of [[April 19]] with a barrage of 324 guns, the largest ever in the [[Pacific Ocean theater of World War II|Pacific Ocean Theater]]. Battleships, cruisers, and destroyers joined the bombardment, which was followed by 650 Navy and Marine planes attacking the enemy positions with napalm, rockets, bombs, and machine guns. The Japanese defenses were sited on [[Reverse slope defence|reverse slope]]s, where the defenders waited out the artillery barrage and aerial attack in relative safety, emerging from the caves to rain mortar rounds and grenades upon the Americans advancing up the forward slope.

A tank assault on Kakazu Ridge, launched without sufficient infantry support in the hope of a breakthrough, failed with the loss of 22 tanks. Although flamethrower tanks cleared many cave defenses, there was no breakthrough, and the XXIV Corps lost 720 killed, wounded or missing. The losses might have been greater, except for the fact that the Japanese had practically all of their infantry reserves tied up farther south, held there by another feint off the Minatoga beaches by the 2d Marine Division that coincided with the attack.

At the end of April, the 1st Marine Division relieved the 27th Infantry Division, and the 77th Infantry Division relieved the 7th. When the 6th Marine Division arrived, III Amphibious Corps took over the right flank and Tenth Army assumed control of the battle.

On [[May 4]] 32nd Army launched another counter offensive. This time Ushijima attempted to make amphibious assaults on the coasts behind American lines. To support his offensive, the Japanese artillery moved into the open. By doing so they were able to fire 13,000 rounds in support but American [[Counter-battery fire]] destroyed nineteen guns on [[May 4]] and forty more over the next two days. The attack was a complete failure.
Buckner launched another American attack on [[May 11]]. Ten days of fierce fighting followed. On [[May 13]] troops of the 96th Infantry Division and 763d Tank Battalion captured Conical Hill. Rising 476 feet above the Yonabaru coastal plain, this feature was the eastern anchor of the main Japanese defenses and was defended by about 1,000 Japanese. Meanwhile, on the opposite coast, the 6th Marine Division fought for "Sugar Loaf Hill". The capture of these two key positions exposed the Japanese around Shuri on both sides. Buckner hoped to envelop Shuri and trap the main Japanese defending force.

By the end of May monsoon rains which turned contested slopes and roads into a morass exacerbated both the tactical and medical situations. The ground advance began to resemble a [[World War I]] battlefield as troops became mired in mud and flooded roads greatly inhibited evacuation of wounded to the rear. Troops lived on a field sodden by rain, part garbage dump and part graveyard. Unburied Japanese bodies decayed, sank in the mud, and became part of a noxious stew. Anyone sliding down the greasy slopes could easily find their pockets full of maggots at the end of the journey.[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/okinawa-battle.htm]

[[Image:US Flag raised over Shuri castle on Okinawa.jpg|thumb|[[U.S. flag]] raised over [[Shuri Castle]]]]
On [[May 29]], Major General [[Pedro del Valle]], commanding the 1st Marine Division, ordered Company A, [[1st Battalion, 5th Marines]] to capture Shuri Castle. Seizure of the castle represented both strategic and psychological blows for the Japanese and was a milestone in the campaign. Del Valle was awarded a [[Navy Distinguished Service Medal|Distinguished Service Medal]] for his leadership in the fight and the subsequent occupation and reorganization of Okinawa. However the castle was outside the 1st Marine Division's zone, and only frantic efforts by the commander and staff of the 77th Infantry Division prevented the Marines from being subjected to an American air strike and artillery bombardment.

Either by design or the [[Fog of war|"fog of war"]], Buckner did not detect the Japanese retreat to their second line of defense, which ultimately led to the greatest slaughter on Okinawa in the latter stages of the battle, including the deaths of thousands of civilians.

The island fell on about [[June 21]] [[1945]], though some Japanese continued fighting, including the future governor of [[Okinawa prefecture]], [[Masahide Ota]].

Ushijima and Cho committed suicide by [[seppuku]] in their command headquarters on Hill 89 in the closing hours of the battle. Major Yahara had asked Ushijima for permission to commit suicide, but the general refused his request, saying, ''"If you die there will be no one left who knows the truth about the battle of Okinawa. Bear the temporary shame but endure it. This is an order from your army Commander."''<ref>John Toland, ''ibid'', p. 723</ref>

Yahara was the most senior officer to have survived the battle on the island, and he later authored a book entitled ''The Battle for Okinawa''.

==Casualties==
U.S. losses were over 72,000 casualties, of whom 12,513 were killed or missing, over twice the number killed at Iwo Jima and [[Battle of Guadalcanal|Guadalcanal]] combined. Several thousand servicemen who died indirectly (from wounds and other causes) at a later date are not included in the total. One of the most famous U.S. casualties was the [[Journalist|war correspondent]] [[Ernie Pyle]], who was killed by Japanese [[machine gun]] fire on [[Ie Shima]].<ref> Reid, Chip.[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5130777/ "Ernie Pyle, trail-blazing war correspondent &mdash; Brought home the tragedy of D-Day and the rest of WWII"], ''NBC News'', June 7, 2004. (URL accessed April 26, 2006)</ref> U.S. forces suffered their highest ever casualty rate for [[combat stress reaction]] during the entire battle, at 48% (compared to 30% in the [[Korean War]]).

[[Image:A group of japanese prisoners.jpg|thumb|250px|A group of Japanese prisoners who preferred capture to suicide wait to be questioned]]

There were about 66,000 Japanese combatants killed and 7,000 captured. Some of the soldiers committed ''seppuku'' or simply blew themselves up with [[hand grenade|hand grenades]]. This was also the only battle in the war in which the Japanese surrendered by the thousands. When the American forces occupied the island, the Japanese took Okinawan clothing to avoid capture. The Okinawans came to the Americans' aid by offering a simple way to detect Japanese in hiding. Okinawan [[dialect]] differs greatly from standard Japanese; with Americans at their sides, Okinawans would give directions to people in the local dialect, and those who did not understand were considered Japanese in hiding who were then captured.

[[Image:Last picture of LtGen. Buckner at Okinawa.jpg|thumb|left|The last picture of Lieutenant General [[Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.]]]]

Just 4 days from the closing of the campaign, General [[Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.]], was killed by Japanese artillery fire while inspecting his troops at the front line. He was the highest-ranking U.S. officer to be killed by enemy fire during the war.

Buckner's decision to attack the Japanese defenses head-on, although proving to be extremely costly in U.S. lives, was ultimately successful.

[[Image:Overcoming the last resistance.jpg|thumb|250px|Overcoming the resistance on Okinawa was aided by [[propaganda]] [[Pamphlet|leaflet]]s, one of which is being read by a prisoner awaiting transport]]

[[Image:OkinawaMarineOrphan.jpg|thumb|left|Two Marines share a foxhole with an Okinawan war orphan]]
At some battles, such as Iwo Jima, there had been no civilians involved, but Okinawa had a large indigenous civilian population. Okinawan civilian losses in the campaign were in excess of 140,000; in addition, it is estimated that more than a third of the surviving civilian population was wounded.

During World War II, when many Okinawans still spoke a different dialect, Japanese troops treated the locals brutally. In its history of the war, the Okinawa Prefectural [[Peace Memorial Museum]] presents Okinawa as being caught in the fighting between America and Japan. During the 1945 battle, the Japanese Army showed indifference to Okinawa's defense and safety, and the Japanese soldiers used civilians as [[human shield]]s against the Americans.

With the impending victory of American troops, civilians often committed [[mass suicide]], urged on by fanatical Japanese soldiers. They persuaded locals that victorious American soldiers would go on a rampage of killing and raping. ''[[Ryukyu Shimpo]]'', one of the two major Okinawan newspapers, wrote:

<blockquote>
''There are many Okinawans who have testified that the Japanese Army directed them to commit suicide. There are also people who have testified that they were handed grenades by Japanese soldiers'' (to blow up themselves) [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/world/asia/01japan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin]
</blockquote>

Some of the civilians, having been induced by Japanese [[propaganda]] to believe that U.S. soldiers were barbarians who committed horrible atrocities, killed their families and themselves to avoid capture. It is believed many Okinawans threw themselves and their family members from the cliffs where the Peace Museum now resides. Other Okinawans were murdered by Japanese to prevent their capture or to steal their food and supplies.

==Aftermath==
[[Image:Attack on bloody ridge.jpg|thumb|250px|American [[M4 Sherman|Sherman]] tanks knocked out by the Japanese artillery]]
Ninety percent of the buildings on the island were completely destroyed, and the lush tropical landscape was turned into a vast field of mud, lead, decay and maggots.[http://www.nyc-shorinryu.com/okinawa.html]

The military value of Okinawa "exceeded all hope". Okinawa provided a fleet anchorage, troop staging areas, and airfields in close proximity to Japan. After the battle, the U.S. occupied Okinawa and set up the [[Government of the Ryukyu Islands]]. Significant U.S. forces remain garrisoned there, and Kadena remains the largest U.S. air base in Asia.

Some military historians believe that Okinawa led directly to the use of the [[atomic bomb]] on [[Hiroshima]] and [[Nagasaki]]. A prominent holder of this view is [[Victor Davis Hanson]], who states it explicitly in his book ''[[Ripples of Battle]]'':

:''...because the Japanese on Okinawa, including native Okinawans, were so fierce in their defense (even when cut off, and without supplies), and because casualties were so appalling, many American strategists looked for an alternative means to subdue mainland Japan, other than a direct invasion. This means presented itself, with the advent of atomic bombs, which worked admirably in convincing the Japanese to sue for peace, without American casualties. Ironically, the American conventional [[Bombing of Tokyo in World War II|fire-bombing]] of major Japanese cities (which had been going on for months before Okinawa) was far more effective at killing civilians than the atomic bombs and, had the Americans simply continued, or expanded this, the Japanese would likely have surrendered anyway. Nevertheless, the bombs were a powerful symbolic display of American power, and the Japanese capitulated, obviating the need for an invasion of the home islands.''

In 1945, [[Winston Churchill]] called the battle "among the most intense and famous in military history."

In 1995, the Okinawa government erected a memorial named [[Cornerstone of Peace]][http://www.pref.okinawa.jp/summit/a_la/peace/ishiji/index2.htm] in Mabuni, the site of the last fighting in southeastern Okinawa. The memorial lists all the known names of those who died in the battle, civilian and military, Japanese and foreign. At present there are 237,318 names listed including 148,136 Okinawans (mostly civilians) and 14,005 Americans.

Disagreement continues between Okinawa's local government and Japan's national government over the role of the Japanese military in civilian mass suicides during the battle. In March 2007, the national Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry ([[MEXT]]) advised textbook publishers to reword descriptions that the embattled Imperial Japanese Army forced civilians to kill themselves in the war so they would not be taken prisoner by the U.S. military. MEXT prefers descriptions that just say that civilians received hand grenades from the military. In June 2007 the Okinawa Prefectoral Assembly adopted a resolution stating[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070623a1.html], <blockquote>"We strongly call on the (national) government to retract the instruction and to immediately restore the description in the textbooks so the truth of the Battle of Okinawa will be handed down correctly and a tragic war will never happen again."</blockquote>

[[Image:Americans on Okinawa hear of victory in Europe.jpg|thumb|250px|American soldiers on Okinawa frontline listen to radio reports of [[Victory in Europe Day]] on [[May 8]], [[1945]]]]

==See also==
{{Commons|Battle of Okinawa}}

* [[Ryukyuan people]]
* [[Himeyuri Students]]

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DISCOVERY給的解釋是說：因為沖繩島民因為愛國心沒有本土的大和民族那麼重，所以自殺率較少。僅供參考。--先講結論：瓦倫達效應～海水退潮就知道誰沒穿褲子（留言） 2015年2月12日 (四) 16:45 (UTC)[回复]

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我发现有单独的条目，是否应该请将本章节缩短，并扩充上面的主条目，谢谢 --hahahaha哈（留言） 2016年4月10日 (日) 19:58 (UTC)[回复]

最後一句話“法院承認軍隊參與了集體自殺和謀殺後自殺，理由是士兵分發手榴彈自殺和事實上沒有記錄集體自殺在沒有駐紮軍隊的島嶼出現”應該是翻譯的問題，明顯的語法錯誤並且意思不通順。想表達的意思應該是“沒有駐扎軍隊的島嶼上實際上沒有記錄到集體自殺事件”之類的意思，因為不擅長英文所以無法確認原文獻的內容，擅長英文的朋友麻煩可以重新翻譯下嗎？謝謝--黑色騎士團員（留言） 2017年2月17日 (五) 06:56 (UTC)[回复]

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