In the blood-soaked spring of 1945, the Pacific War’s most devastating confrontation unfolded on a small Japanese island, ...
For many of the World War II veterans gathered in Rockford this past weekend, the Pearl Harbor attack was a call to service ...
Japan plans to increase its bomb disposal efforts after finding several undetonated explosives seemingly left over from WW II ...
NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture on June 23 marked its 78th Memorial Day to honor the victims of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. By the end of the fighting in 1945, more than 200,000 people ...
NAHA--Shigeaki Kinjo, who survived a mass suicide during a fierce ground battle in Okinawa Prefecture during World War II, died here from acute heart failure on July 19. He was 93. Kinjo was a ...
Ushijima Sadamitsu visits Okinawa regularly to learn about the battle. He keeps returning to one sight in particular: the former headquarters of Japan’s 32nd Army.
Residents suffered heavily under Japanese imperial rule, and nearly one-third of the island's population died during the Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II. This vast U.S. military ...
The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...
The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...
Stanley Primmer was knocked unconscious and blown out of his shoes after a Japanese kamikaze pilot dropped a bomb and then ...