OKINAWA CAMPAIGN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Okinawa campaign mean? 

• OKINAWA CAMPAIGN (noun)
  The noun OKINAWA CAMPAIGN has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: OKINAWA CAMPAIGN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OKINAWA CAMPAIGN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Okinawa; Okinawa campaign

Instance hypernyms:

campaign; military campaign (several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints))

Domain region:

Okinawa (the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands)

Holonyms ("Okinawa campaign" is a part of...):

Second World War; World War 2; World War II (a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945)