What is Battle of Okinawa?
{{Infobox Military Conflict |conflict=Battle of Okinawa |partof=[[World War II]], the Pacific War |image=Ww2 158.jpg |caption = A Marine from the [[2nd Battalion, 1st Marines]] on Wana Ridge provides covering fire with his [[Thompson submachine gun]], May, 1945 |date=April 1, – June 22, 1945 |place=[[Okinawa Island]], [[Japan]] |result=Allied victory |combatant1={{flag|United States|1912}}<br/>{{flag|United Kingdom}} |combatant2={{flagicon|Japan|alt}} [[Empire of Japan]] |commander1={{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.|Simon Bolivar Buckner]]{{KIA}}<br/> {{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Roy Geiger]]<br/> {{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Joseph Stilwell]]<hr> {{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Chester W. Nimitz]]<br/> {{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Raymond A. Spruance]]<br/> {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape|Bruce Fraser]] |commander2={{flagicon|Japan|alt}} [[Mitsuru Ushijima]]{{KIA}}<br/> {{flagicon|Japan|alt}} [[Isamu Chō]]{{KIA}}<br/> {{flagicon|Japan|alt}} [[Hiromichi Yahara]]{{POW}}<hr> {{flagicon|Japan|naval}} [[Minoru Ota]]{{KIA}}<br/> {{flagicon|Japan|naval}} [[Keizō Komura]] |strength1=183,000<ref>{{cite book |author=Appleman, Roy E. |author2=James M. Burns; Russell A. Gugeler; John Stevens |year=2000 |url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/ |title=Okinawa: the last battle |location=Washingto, D.C. |publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]] |page=36 |access-date=2011-01-30 |archive-date=2009-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926225835/http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> |strength2=117,000<ref>{{cite book| last = Brooks| first = Risa| title = Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jHYqXJA0i6QC&pg=PA41| year = 2007| publisher = Stanford University Press| isbn = 978-0-8047-6809-2| page = 41 }}</ref> |casualties1=12,513 killed<br/>38,916 wounded,<br/>33,096 non-combat losses |casualties2=About