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HABU

The Habu (Trimeresurus flavoviridis) is a large venomous snake of the pit viper family Crotalidae found in Okinawa and others of the Ryukyu Islands.
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Gene Hackman is an American actor. He was born in 1931 at San Bernardino, California. The son of a pressman who moved his family east to Danville, Illinois, Hackman joined the Marines at 16, and in four years served in China, Japan, Hawaii, and Okinawa. After his discharge, he enrolled at the University of Illinois and then attended the School of Radio Technique in New York: Returning to California, he decided to pursue an acting career and joined the Pasadena Playhouse. Hackman began his professional career off-Broadway. He made his Broadway debut in Irwin Shaw's 'Children at Their Games', for which he won a Clarence Derwent Award. His first Broadway hit was Any Wednesday in 1964, the year he made his film debut in Robert Rossen's Lilith. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Arthur Penn's 1967 'Bonnie and Clyde', and again for Gilbert Cate's 1969 'I Never Sang for My Father'. He won an Oscar as best actor for his work in William Friedkin's 1971 'The French Connection', and also appeared in John
Frankenheimer's sequel the 1975 'The French Connection II'.
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KARATE

Karate (empty hand) is a form of Japanese unarmed combat which has developed over thousands of years with aspects coming from India, Okinawa, China and Japan. It was originally a dual form of meditation and self-defence, it has more recently been perverted into a sport which doesn't do justice to the deep spiritual origins of karate.
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M18A1

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The M18A1 was an American recoilless rifle first used at Okinawa in 1945 during the Second World War. The M18A1 was operated by a crew of two and took a 57 mm calibre round and had a maximum range of 3976 metres and an effective range of 450 metres and could penetrate 2 mm of armour.
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AICHI E16A1

The Aichi E16A1 Zuiun was a Japanese long-range reconnaissance sea-plane of the Second World War produced from 1943 to replace the Aichi E13A, as the Navy Reconnaissance Seaplane Zuiun Model 11. The Zuiun was powered by a 1300 hp Mitsubishi MK8D Kinsei 54 14-cylinder radial piston engine providing a top speed of 440 kmh and a range of 2420 km. Armaments consisted of two 20 mm Type 99 Model 2 cannons mounted in the wings and a 13mm Type 2 machine-gun on a flexible mount in the aft position and a 250 kg bomb carried on an under-fuselage mounting. A lot of Zuiun planes were used for kamikaze operations in the Okinawa area.
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THE KARATE KID II

The Karate Kid II is a martial arts adventure starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Pat E Johnson and Martin Kove in a story about a teenage karate expert accompanying his mentor to Okinawa, and inadvertently making a dangerous enemy on the way. The Karate Kid II was directed by John G Avildsen in 1986.
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BIRMINGHAM III

The USS Birmingham was an American Cleveland Class light cruiser of 10000 tons displacement launched in 1943. The USS Birmingham was powered by eight Babcock and Wilcox boilers providing a top speed of 33 knots and carried a complement of 900 and three aircraft. She was armed with twelve 6 inch guns; twelve 5 inch dual-purpose guns arranged in pairs; twenty-four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and nineteen 20 mm anti-aircraft guns. During the Second World War the USS Birmingham was torpedoed in November 1943; severely damaged when the Princeton blew up along side her in October 1944 and was nearly sunk when attacked and hit by a bomb from a Japanese Kamikaze plane in May 1945 off Okinawa.
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OKINAWA

The USS Okinawa is an American Iwo Jima Class amphibious assault ship of 11000 tons light displacement launched in 1961. The USS Okinawa is powered by two Combustion Engineering boilers providing a top speed of 23 knots and carries a crew of 686 including 48 officers plus 1746 troops and 1500 tons of aviation fuel and twenty CH-46D/E Sea Knight or eleven CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters or four AV-8B Harrier aircraft and helicopters. Armaments consist of two Raytheon GMLS Mk 25 octuple surface-to-air missile launchers taking the Sea Sparrow missile; four USN 3 inch/50 Mk 33 guns in two twin arrangements and two General Electric/General Dynamics 20 mm 6-barrelled Vulcan Phalanx Mk 15 guns.
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