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The three-month-long battle of Okinawa covered a 700-mile arc fromFormosa to Kyushu and involved a million combatants--Americans,Japanese, British, and native Okinawans. With a magnitude that rivaledthe Normandy invasion the previous June, the battle of Okinawa was thebiggest and costliest single operation of the Pacific War. For each ofits 82 days of combat, the battle would claim an average of 3,000 livesfrom the antagonists and the unfortunate non-combatants.” (Joseph H. Alexander)