Island called The Keystone of the Pacific by the Department of Defense
Else clues• 1945 battle site
• 1945 battle zone
• 1945 island dogfight site
• 1945 Pacific battle site
• Battle site of 1945
• Battleground of 1945
• Birthplace of karate
• Historic Japanese island
• Island in the news, April 1945
• Island off Japan
• Island where karate was developed
• Japanese island
• Karate's birthplace
• Landing site of 4/1/45
• Largest of the Ryukyu Islands
• Largest of the Ryukyus
• Naha locale
• Pacific battle site
• Pacific battle site of 1945
• Pacific island
• Pacific island in major W.W. II fighting
• Pat O'Brien W.W. II film
• Site of 1945 fighting
• Site of the largest WWII Allied Pacific amphibious assault
• Site of WWII's last major battle
• The largest of the Ryukyu Islands
• World War II combat site
• WWII battle site
• WWII Japanese battle site
• The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
• Considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans
• A campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945)
• In savage close-quarter fighting US marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese