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020 _a0792458591 (hbk.)
_cBND26.13
100 1 _aAPPLEMAN Roy E
_eauthor
245 0 _aOkinawa:
_bthe last battle /
_cRoy E. Appleman, James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler and John Stevens
260 _aNew York:
_bBDD Special Editions,
_c1948
300 _axiii, 529 pages:
_billustrations, maps;
_c24 cm
440 _aUnited States Army in World War II: the war in the Pacific
520 _aOfficially 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.
598 _aBATTLE OF OKINAWA, SECOND WORLD WAR, JAPANESE SURRENDER
650 _aSECOND WORLD WAR
_xCAMPAIGNS
_zOKINAWA ISLAND
700 _aBURNS James M
_eauthor
700 _aGUGELER Russell A
_eauthor
700 _aSTEVENS John
_eauthor
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