Okinawa was another in the long line of islands, leading them nearer to Japan. The capture of Okinawa would give the Americans an airfield, and a shorter flight to bomb mainland of Japan.
Okinawa was another in the long line of islands, leading them nearer to Japan. The capture of Okinawa would give the Americans an airfield, and a shorter flight to bomb mainland of Japan.
Okinawa, Japan is about 795.5 miles from Iwakuni, Japan. It is about a 32-hour long trip if taken by car.
Long Way to Okinawa - 1962 was released on: Japan: 7 March 1962 USA: 26 April 1963
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Not really, at least at that time. What we now refer to as karate was created on Okinawa, a small set of islands between China and Japan. It was created combining Okinawa fighting techniques with Chinese Kung Fu. It went to Japan in the 1920's when Gichin Funakoshi went there and demonstrated and then taught it. Since then, Okinawa has become a part of Japan.
In Okinawa, Japan lost over 100,000 soldiers, who were either killed, captured or committed suicide, and the Allies suffered more than 65,000 casualties in the Okinawa which was a 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945.
I've sent my deployed Marine a care package and it took about 2 weeks for it to get there.
Forever. There are no roads from the mainland to any of the Caribbean islands.
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