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for our advances.
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Okinawa had the highest number of casualties
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in all the campaigns of the Pacific.
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In addition to the American and Japanese forces,
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hundreds of thousands of Okinawan civilians
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were wounded or killed, caught in the crossfire of battle.
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The devastation was compounded
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by the torrential rains that swept the island.
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The rains were so constant
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and the mud so deep they couldn't get the amtracs in there
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without getting stuck to get the bodies out.
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So the bodies would just constantly rot away.