Show Costliest WWII Guess What the costliest battle of world war II for U. Battle of the Pearl answer is none of but the Battle of THE LOOMING Japanese surrender anniversary of 2 and the end of actual fighting in August of the same bring to mind the close of the war in the Pacific and the last and most costly battle of the war for U. S. forces that That battle began on April 1 when the of eight divisions of troops began against no on the WHAT AT first seemed easy turned into grim the enemy was underground and in well prepared concrete bunkers and defensive Before the fighting ended months later the Army and Marines had lost over dead and over wounded and suffered non-battle casualties of U. S. NAVY losses had been by far the highest of any battle-almost a similar number 36 ships sunk and Japanese losses were even more The U. S. war machine had wiped out aircraft and sixteen IT WAS the last battle of the war and the But because it came so when the outcome of the war was no longer in less interest has been attached to it than to some earlier Yet its outcome was a major factor in convincing many in Japan that the struggle was The atomic bomb made that fate even more |