"civilian" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- More than 120,000 Japanese troops and an astonishing 150,000 Okinawan civilians died in the fierce battle.
- Most were Okinawan civilians - including huge numbers of women and children - who were killed when American forces bombed and shelled the island.
- Civilians and historians report that soldiers on both sides had raped Okinawan civilians during the battle.
- Worse, perhaps 150,000 Okinawan civilians perished, caught in between.
- The three-month battle for Okinawa took more than 200,000 lives - 12,520 Americans, 94,136 Japanese soldiers, and 94,000 Okinawan civilians, about one-quarter of the prewar population.
- Some 150,000 Okinawan civilians died.
- Just inland from the beach, they encountered four Okinawan civilians, capturing two; the other two fled, alerting the nearby Japanese garrison in Tsugen village.
- Japanese propaganda about American atrocities had led many Okinawan civilians to believe that when the Americans came they would first rape all the women and then kill them.
- American soldiers did sometimes deliberately kill Okinawan civilians, though American official policy was to not kill civilians.
- Japanese soldiers were killing Okinawan civilians to get their scraps of food or drops of water.
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