According to the Cornerstone to Peace, which has all their names, over 78,000 Japanese soldiers, 14,000 American soldiers, and 149,000 Okinawans (both conscripts and civilians) died during the battle. Or about half of Okinawa's population. Imagine living through that.
"It was me,"
Grayson Phillips
Luis Powell
If you explore the battle in that island, like with the books written by an infantryman of US military and the chief staff officer of Japanese army, you’ll find how irresponsible and despicable military officers of this country were in that island, in a clear exponential proportion of military ranks and dishonesty.
(Of course, war itself is inherently unsightly. I read in the book mentioned above an American general ordering his subordinates literally to die on a hill even after majority of them were mowed by crossfires and residuals started imploring withdrawal)
The worst ones were Ushijima and Chou(長:Japanese), I still don’t give credit our military for anything because of them and it seems that that custom of irresponsibility and shortsightedness have been well preserved in the military of this country.
Some poster will call me Zhong or Chang but as I am a person born in this country it’s just insufferable how mean they (high-rank generals and some officers, not infantrymen or the majority of low-rank officers) were there.
Colton Gray
Are you happy they're bringing back the old WWII dress uniforms?
Juan Johnson
why didn't they just surrender
Jason Gomez
Would it have helped? 'Murrican troops didn't like taking prisoners.
Logan Wright
'Murrican troops didn't like taking prisoners because the japs would lie and would go kamakazi on the murricans capturing them
Juan Rogers
if the were civilians the would have been treated well
James Bennett
You don't actually know shit about the Pacific war, do you?
Jack Martin
what would an arab know of either warfronts
Samuel Edwards
muh colonized subject