A Celestial View of Okinawa
Celestial view: Right after breakfast, we set for a debriefing with Lens, our island tour pilot. We were afraid to give the breakfast back right away as we started a rather bumpy flight over the coast! But we held strong and could enjoy a perfect sunny day with celestial views of the beaches, the ocean’s different hues of blues and greens, the waves, rocks, incredible vegetation! Paradise, or close!
Celestial view:
The battle of Okinawa started April 1st, 1945, proved to be one of the WWII longest and hardest fought campaigns. 12,500 Americans were killed, 75,000 of the Japanese imperial army, 1/3 of civilian population, about 100,000 people died… The toughest threat for the Americans were the 3,000 kamikazes sent by the Japanese.
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