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Okinawa   /ˌoʊkˌɪnˈɑwə/  /ˌoʊkinˈɑwə/   Listen
Okinawa

noun
1.
The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.
2.
A campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans.  Synonym: Okinawa campaign.





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... Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gumma, Hiroshima, Hokkaido, Hyogo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kochi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Oita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi Independence: 660 BC, traditional founding by Emperor Jimmu Constitution: 3 May 1947 Legal ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


Words linked to "Okinawa" :   military campaign, campaign, World War 2, Okinawa campaign, Ryukyu Islands, island, Second World War, World War II, Naha City


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