✦ History

Part of Pacific War, Battle of Okinawa

Operation Ten-Go

April 7, 1945 · Battle site

Result American victory

Japan's last major naval sortie: the battleship Yamato sailed for Okinawa on a one-way mission and was sunk by American carrier aircraft southwest of Kyushu.

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Axis

Allies

Japan
United States
Seiichi Itō military commander Keizō Komura military commander Kōsaku Aruga military commander
Marc Mitscher military commander Joseph J. Clark military commander Frederick C. Sherman military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
97
Wounded
122
Aircraft
386
Aircraft lost
c. 10–13

Units

Japanese Second Fleet Yamato
United States Fifth Fleet Fast Carrier Task Force

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