From Little Italy, Tiffin, to seeing the Enola Gay | Advertiser-Tribune The last and biggest of the Pacific battles of World War II occurred on the island of Okinawa, Japan, from April 1 to June 22, 1945. It was considered the bloodiest battle of the Pacific campaign, involving 287,000 troops of the U.S. armed forces against 130,000 Japanese soldiers. The war ended with the dropping of atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, respectively.

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