English noun: Okinawa campaign | |||
| 1. | Okinawa campaign (act) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | Okinawa | ||
| Instance hypernym | campaign, military campaign | ||
| Part meronym | Second World War, World War 2, World War II | ||
| Domain region | Okinawa | ||