okinawa campaign
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1. a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans (noun.act)
instance hypernym | : | campaign, military campaign, |
definition | : | several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) (noun.act) |
part meronym | : | second world war, world war 2, world war ii, |
definition | : | a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945 (noun.act) |
domain region | : | okinawa, |
definition | : | the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands (noun.location) |
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