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Battle of Okinawa. / 26.5°N 128°E / 26.5; 128. The Battle of Okinawa ( Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, [ 24]: 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. [ 25][ 26] The ...
Bavarian Army. The Bavarian Army was the army of the Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom (1806–1918) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereignty ( Wehrhoheit) of Bavaria into that of the German State in 1919. The Bavarian Army was never comparable to the armies of the ...
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. [ 7][ 8][ 9] The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet ...
Okinawa ground order of battle. The American invasion of the island of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, took place 1 April 1945. The Japanese military was determined to inflict a casualty rate so high that the U.S. government would choose not to invade the Japanese home islands. To this end, the southern portion of the island had been ...
Rivers of Okinawa Prefecture (4 P) Categories: Bodies of water of Japan by prefecture. Landforms of Okinawa Prefecture. Commons category link is the pagename.
Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik. Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik was a pioneering German aircraft producer during the early part of the 20th century. Founded in 1910 by Gustav Otto in Bavaria, the firm was reorganized on 7 March 1916 into Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW). [1] In 1917, a Bavarian aircraft engine maker called Rapp Motorenwerke changed its ...
BMW India was established in 2006 as a sales subsidiary with a head office located in Gurugram. A BMW complete knock-down assembly plant was opened in Chennai in 2007, assembling Indian-market 3 Series, 5 Series, 7 Series, X1, X3, X5, Mini Countryman and motorcycle models. [137] [138] The 20 Million Euro plant aims to produce 1,700 cars per year.
Nakagusuku Bay. / 26.25500°N 127.83194°E / 26.25500; 127.83194. Nakagusuku Bay (中城湾, Nakagusuku-wan, Okinawan: Nakagushiku-widu) is a bay on the southern coast of Okinawa Island on the Pacific Ocean in Japan. The bay covers 220 square kilometres (85 sq mi) and ranges between 10 metres (33 ft) to 15 metres (49 ft) deep. [ 1]