when did okinawa happen
Introduction. Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign (April 1âJune 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army.At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan.attle of Okinawa. On April 1, 1945, Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa and engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War.