Word: ryukyu
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Significance. Because Saipan's civilians are mostly ignorant peasants from the comparatively remote Ryukyu Islands, and presumably less fanatical than civilians who will be found in Japan proper, Saipan furnishes no perfect example for the future. But Pacific forces have learned a lot about the many problems of occupying enemy territory. And the Orient can learn there that Americans are at their considerate best once victory...
Said Admiral Sankichi Takahashi: the air attacks of the U.S. fleet on the Ryukyu Islands and the great bastion of Formosa "were carried out as a prelude to operations for the recapture of the Philippines...
...mandated islands in the Pacific (including the Carolines, Marshalls and Marianas), plus the Bonin Islands, Marcus, Ryukyu and Formosa...