Okinawa
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The Significance of Okinawa
Observing the death toll, and the bloodshed from the Battle of Okinawa, the U.S. was influenced to drop the Atomic Bomb on the mainland. In one night, more than sixteen square miles of Japan was destroyed.
Cloud of smoke from WWII era atomic bomb.