what did the battle of okinawa prove to the?
The Battle of Okinawa started in April 1945 The capture of Okinawa was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far east. Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East but it was to be one of the major battles of WWII. Alongside, the territorial re-conquest of land in the Far East, the Americans wished to destroy what was left of Japanâs merchant fleet and use airstrips in the region to launch bombing raids on Japanâs industrial heartland.