Talk:Battle of Okinawa

Picture caption change requested

The caption "A 6th Division Marine demolition crew watches explosive charges detonate and destroy a Japanese cave, May 1945" feels like it would be more correct if it were rewritten as "A 6th Marine Division demolition crew watches explosive charges detonate and destroy a Japanese cave, May 1945". I only say this because I spent four years in the Marine Corps, and it strikes me as more lucid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.88.34.151 (talk) 14:08, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

That reads better to me. Why don't you go ahead and make the change? --Yaush (talk) 14:31, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Okinawa vs. B of the Bulge

Are there any RS's that contend that, taking into account the naval and supply forces needed, the Battle of Okinawa exceeds the BotBulge for the AMERICAN largest WW2 battle? HammerFilmFan (talk) 20:49, 13 May 2011 (UTC) HammerFilmFan

I remember hearing a claim that every purple heart being used to this day was ordered for the expected casuality numbers for this operation. If you can verify this, please add it to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.156.121.36 (talk) 23:22, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

That is only partly true, all the Purple Hearts used by the US armed forces today were made for the eventual invasion of Japan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.3.51.158 (talk) 03:05, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

citation needed on entire British common wealth contrib

In reading the entry it states the British supplied 50 ships of which 17 were carriers. I only have one problem with this? RN only had 13 carriers during the entire war. In researching this matter, 4 RN carriers took part, fielding less then 200 aircraft. I kindly ask that the person who entered this, research and enter the correct information. Thank you. http://orbat.com/site/history/volume5/520/Note%20RN%20TF%2057%20Okinawa.pdf, http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/uk_fleet.htm. Jacob805 20:36, 4 August 2011 (UTC) Jacob805 20:43, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

I suggest you do your homework before telling other people to do so. The RN had more than 13 carriers. The Royal Navy claims to have had 65 in serivce throughout the war. If you loose your loose definition and look at what they had, a mixture of Fleet, Escort, Light, and other variants. See [for further information] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.8.192.142 (talk) 22:48, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Well maybe if the person the contributed the original false information, cited his or her sources, it would not raise the question. It is now, since you failed to sign your name, cited for deletion...if no one has any other remarks about this, In reviewing the royal navy web site, they only had 13 carries in service at that time. Can any find a list of Royal navy ships operating at this time 1945 pacific? Jacob805 12:02, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

You can also look up the potions of the 17 carriers, and they were not all in the battle of Okinawa Jacob805 12:03, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Do we really want to get into this witch's brew? ;) --Yaush (talk) 15:03, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Regardless of how many British carriers were in the battle, Jacob you are wrong to state "RN only had 13 carriers during the entire war" and even "they only had 13 carries in service at that time"; spectacually wrong.

The British Pacific Fleet had 21 carriers of various types with it, and a quick 5 minute search provides the identity of ~60 aircraft carriers, of various types: Argus, Hermes, Eagle, Ark Royal, Audacity, Archer, Unicorn, Pretoria Castle escort carrier, Activity escort carrier, 3 Courageous class, 4 Illustrious class, 2 Implacable class, 3 Nairana class escort carrier, 26 Ruler class escort carrier, 8 Attacker class escort carrier, 4 Colossus-class. Thats much much more than the 13 you keep claiming ... as i said first time round do you homework first. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.8.192.142 (talk) 20:05, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Query Regarding Casualties

It's not clear whether the stated US dead and wounded includes naval personne. Hundreds of sailors were killed during the kamikaze attacks Al-Nofi (talk) 12:57, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

tetsu no ame ("rain of steel") or tetsu no bōfū ("violent wind of steel")

"tetsu no ame ("rain of steel") or tetsu no bōfū ("violent wind of steel") in Japanese"

tetsu no ame (鉄の雨) translates to iron rain

kou no kaze (鋼の風) translates to steel wind

--RHesterly (talk) 22:30, 30 January 2012 (UTC)