Battle Mar Y Tierra: The Battle Of Okinawa

Battle Mar y Tierra: The battle of Okinawa

The battle of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, released between the months, April and June 1945, is cataloged as the largest Mar-Tierra-Aire Battle of the Pacific campaign, with the largest number of kamikazes attacks byJapanese garrison.

This operation was approved on October 3, 1944 by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as an alliance between the United States and Britain, integrating to his ranks Canada, Australia and New Zealand (member countries of the Commonwealth).

Likewise, it was planned.000 troops, managed to neutralize part of the Japanese defenses constituted by 140.000 troops, thus facilitating the entrance to Okinawa.

Finally, on April 1, 1945, the allies take the north and south of the island of Okinawa, starting a bloody attack for the absolute control and management of the territory, this being a strategic point at 550 km from Japan, which would allow the alliesAn air operations base. However, the combat lasted 82 days, where multiple assaults were made at certain points of the island, which meant a high number of fatalities and injured, in addition to disproportionate logistics expenses for both sides, with an approximate 85.000 Japanese casualties, 101.357 casualties suffered by the United States and 140.000 No combatants.

Thus, on June 30, 1945 after being carried out, at the beginning of the month the so -called assaults on the Peninsulas of Chinen and Kiyan, where the allied offensive was winning and considered the entire insured territory, the battle ofOkinawa.

In this order, the United States government after analyzing the high costs that I would have a new attack on Japan, in August 1945, opts to throw two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that definitely forced Japanese surrender. For later, on September 2, 1945, the allies rose with the absolute victory, ending World War II.

The so -called steel typhoon was one of the greatest milestones during World War II, marking great influence on the international context that reigned at the time. This war confrontation was the only way to ensure the national interest understood as survival, of both sides, which placing their actions in neo -realistic strategies, used their capacities related to the military and arms estate, both in an offensive way (United States) and defensive (Japan), To increase its power and assure its survival tangible, in a structure guided purely by competition and uncertainty.