TY  - BOOK
AU  - APPLEMAN Roy E
AU  - BURNS James M
AU  - GUGELER Russell A
AU  - STEVENS John
TI  - Okinawa: the last battle 
SN  - 0792458591 (hbk.)
PY  - 1948///
CY  - New York
PB  - BDD Special Editions
KW  - SECOND WORLD WAR
KW  - CAMPAIGNS
KW  - OKINAWA ISLAND
N2  - Officially announced June 22, 1945, it was actually the day before (June 21) when the guns finally fell silent on Okinawa, Japan after 82 days of near-constant fighting. The end of the fighting there marked an end to the last major battle of WWII, and set a pathway to the surrender of Imperial Japan
ER  -