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TIL On April 1, 1945, the Battle of Okinawa was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States Army and Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. This invasion was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

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