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The Battle
• 287,000 American troops were involved.
• 130,000 Japanese soldiers were involved.
• Japanese civilian casualties were 100,000 or more
• Military casualties were close to the same
• Sacrifices of women and children
• New tactics
• kamikazes caused mass destruction
• Japanese military concentrated toward the southern half of the island