But there are other difficulties people with the condition may experience because of their Parkinsonâs symptoms. Problems with walking Many people with Parkinsonâs experience loss of balance, poor posture and gait problems (the pattern of how a person walks).
The Battle of Okinawa started in April 1945 The capture of Okinawa was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far east. Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East but it was to be one of the major battles of WWII. Alongside, the territorial re-conquest of land in the Far East, the Americans wished to destroy what was left of Japanâs merchant fleet and use airstrips in the region to launch bombing raids on Japanâs industrial heartland.
Historians today -- like the military planners of the 1940s -- disagree about how many Americans might have died in an invasion. Counting up projected invasion casualties has become important to people seeking to understand why Truman and his cabinet dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.he unprecedented American losses on Okinawa -- one third of the invasion force was killed, wounded or missing -- heightened President Harry Truman's concern about what it would cost in American lives to defeat Japan.