1945 Battle of Okinawa Navy Recommendation for Bronze Star Medal Heroism
Original typed recommendation, tattered and separations started, it was taped together then mounted to a rough cut piece of cardboard. Comes with a contemporary copy of the original.
The battle was the bloodiest and fiercest of the Pacific War, with some 50,000 Allied and around 100,000 Japanese casualties, also including local Okinawans conscripted into the Japanese Army. According to local authorities, at least 149,425 Okinawan people were killed, died by coerced suicide or went missing.
