Individual #Okinawa_campaign__Okinawa  a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting US marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans
  instance of:  military_campaign
  part of:  World_War_II__World_War___Second_World_War  a war between the Allies (Australia Belgium Bolivia Brazil Canada China Colombia Costa-Rico Cuba Czechoslovakia Dominican-Republic El-Salvador Ethiopia Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Iran Iraq Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New-Zealand Nicaragua Norway Panama Philippines Poland South-Africa United-Kingdom US USSR Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania Bulgaria Finland Germany Hungary Italy Japan Rumania Slovakia Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
  part of:  Okinawa  the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
     part of:  Ryukyu_Islands  a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)
        part of:  Japan__Nippon__Nihon  a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
           part of:  Asia  the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
              part of:  Eurasia  the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
                 part of:  eastern_hemisphere__easternhemisphere__orient  the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
                 part of:  northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator

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