On this day, 80 years ago, June 21, 1945 (May 12, 1945 in the lunar calendar), the Battle of Okinawa ended. U.S. tanks unloaded from landing craft rumble across farmland behind the coast June 21, 1945. 83 days after the U.S. Army and Navy landed on Okinawa, a large island with strategic significance, the battle finally ended with the victory of the U.S. military. The island, 300 miles south of Tokyo, became by far the bloodiest battlefield in the Pacific War. The Japanese organized resistance ended in its usual form. General Mitsu Ushijima, commander of the Japanese army in Okinawa, walked out of his cave at dawn and committed suicide by caesarean section in front of his subordinates. Four days ago, General Simon Bolívar Buckner, commander of the U.S. military in Okinawa, was hit by enemy shrapnel while commanding the final attack of the 8th Naval Regiment. He was the most senior official of the U.S. military to die in combat. The bloody battle in Okinawa was relatively calm at the beginning, when the 1st and 6th Navy Divisions and the 7th and 96th Army Divisions landed on the island. But then the United States broke into the Suri Line, a fortification built by Ox Island in an area full of rugged rocks in the southern center of the island. What followed was a three-week hard battle between caves. In the end, the line of defense was finally breached, and the Japanese army lost its last foothold on the southern tip of the island. At the same time, kamikaze aircraft frantically bombed U.S. warships overseas in Okinawa. U.S. military guns, aircraft and artillery claimed the lives of 100,000 Japanese in Okinawa A kamikaze pilot managed to launch a final dive at a U.S. aircraft carrier moored off the island of Okinawa. General Buckner (right) was killed in action On May 11, 1945, the Japanese army launched a kamikaze suicide attack on U.S. warships assembled near Okinawa. The aircraft carrier USS Bankhill, the flagship of the U.S. Task Force 58, was hit by a kamikaze. The first kamikaze crashed into the aircraft group parked on the deck of the USS Bankhill, immediately causing a series of explosions and smoke rose into the sky. Thirty seconds later, another kamikaze swooped almost vertically towards the aircraft carrier and rushed into the interior of the aircraft carrier deck. Firefighters were fighting the fire on the aircraft carrier, exacerbated by 30 aircraft and 12,000 gallons of fuel on board. Black smoke in the sky intertwined with white waves from the ship's steam safety valves. In the distance, anti-aircraft gunners held their position and finally shot down the third invading kamikaze. The Bankhill suffered huge human losses. The bodies of 352 soldiers were wrapped in canvas and thrown into the sea. The sea burial ceremony began at noon and did not end until sunset. Afterwards, Bankeshi, escorted by destroyers, left the fierce fighting waters and headed for Ulisi Atoll, 1200 miles away. At 8:10 a.m. on April 1, 1945, an amphibious landing craft team loaded with U.S. soldiers sailed towards the U.S. coast of Okinawa, kicking off the landing operation on Okinawa. The USS Tennessee behind the landing craft covered the attack with artillery shells. This is a photo taken during the first U.S. air strike on Okinawa, taken on October 10, 1944. From this photo, you can clearly see everything on the island: the bombed Nagata Airport, Kadena Airport, Haguoshi Coast (top left), and farmland that is as neat as a mosaic.