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The Battle for Tarawa ~ see related link for more information regarding the battle .

The Okinawa Campaign was seen as a dress rehearsal for mainland Japan. The US Military Chiefs used the Okinawa casualty figures and rates of area captured per day to project for the scenarios on invading Japan. Those figures drove the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki rather than proceed with the invasion plans or switch to a slow starvation by embargo strategy which may have taken another three to five years to force a surrender.

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