Advantages TO AMERICAN SOLDIERS
~America had more faster & high tech weapons.
~America had 50,000 more troops than Japan.
~Soldiers would often get bad trench foot and sunburn because they had nothing to protect them from the hot sun.
~America had 50,000 more troops than Japan.
~Soldiers would often get bad trench foot and sunburn because they had nothing to protect them from the hot sun.
Disadvantages TO AMERICAN SOLDIERS
~Soldiers would often get bad trench foot and sunburn because they had nothing to protect them from the hot sun.
JAPANS STRATEGY
Ushijima put his strength in Okinawa's southern region, and planned to let the Americans rush ashore before putting his defense from a complicated system of two "concentric defense lines" in a bunch of hills and ridges. The American soldiers were very suprised when the Japanese came out of hiding and attacked.
Americas Strategy
Chester Nimitz also ordered the United States Army air force to mine the Japanese ports and waterways by air w in a successful mission called "Operation Starvation", which severely interrupted the Japanese plans.