Operation Iceberg

Japanese: アイスバーグ作戦 - あいすばーぐさくせん
Operation Iceberg

…The air raid on October 10, 1944 burned down the island's densely populated areas, mainly Naha City, and killed 548 people, but this was the only air raid in the same sense as the air raids on the mainland, and Okinawa entered a ground war from then on. The U.S. military launched an Okinawa landing operation called Operation Iceberg. Starting in late March 1945, the U.S. military, led by Vice Admiral Buckner's 10th Army under Admiral Nimitz, commander of the Pacific Fleet, began bombarding the central and southern parts of Okinawa Island and the Kerama Islands with about 1,500 ships and a total of 548,000 troops. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Operation Iceberg" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…1944年10月10日の空襲は,那覇市を中心に島の人口密集地を焼き払い,死者548人を出したが,本土の空襲と同様の意味で空襲といえるのはこの1回だけであり,以後沖縄は地上戦に突入する。アメリカ軍は,アイスバーグ(氷山)作戦と称する沖縄上陸作戦を開始した。太平洋艦隊司令官ニミッツ元帥配下のバックナー中将のひきいる第10軍を主力とするアメリカ軍は45年3月下旬から,約1500隻の艦船と,延べ54万8000人の兵員で,沖縄本島中南部や慶良間諸島に艦砲射撃を行った。…

※「アイスバーグ作戦」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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