Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945);
in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese;
considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans;
[syn: Okinawa, Okinawa campaign]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Okinawa campaign
n 1: a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the
Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter
fighting United States marines and regular army troops took
the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest
victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans [syn:
Okinawa, Okinawa campaign]