The US Fleet lost 763 aircraft, the Navy had just on 5,000 sailors killed, the Army close to 8,000 dead. US ship badly damaged by a Kamikaze attack, off Okinawa The Japanese and Okinawan conscripts, something of the order of 107,000 dead, plus 100,000 civilian civilians slain, the mind boggles at the scale of death and destruction, all in the space of only 62 days started from the 1st. of April 1945.