We found a former Marine who survived the battle of Sugarloaf Hill. Former corporal Joe Drago was 19 when he was sent to Okinawa. Army intelligence released an analysis of Japanese army tactics.

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Total American ground losses on Okinawa reached approximately 7,300. Today there are roughly 205 unaccounted for soldiers and marines from ...

Eric Smith cautioned on Wednesday that ongoing efforts to relocate Marines from Okinawa to Guam will move those forces away from where they are most needed. “Frankly, Guam puts us going the ...

They were young Americans who either volunteered for service or were drafted and ended up in Okinawa. Eugene B. Sledge (1923-2001), a U.S. Marine who survived the battle, chronicled his ...

Battalion, 4th Marines was captured in World War II and reforged from the Marine Corps' first Raider units. Now it will ...

The Battle of Okinawa erupted in the final stages of ... The US and Japanese governments have agreed to relocate the US Marine Corps Futenma Air station to a less populated area within the prefecture.

and misery of the 82-day battle for Okinawa was disheartening for the Marines. For Jack Hoag and George Niland, with the 6th Marine Division, the future seemed bleak. On Okinawa, both had ...

Currently, there are 19,000 U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa. The island location is ... where the island was the site of a bloody battle that claimed the lives of 200,000 people, including ...

Japan’s Supreme Court recently denied Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki’s final legal challenge to stop construction at a future Marine Corps airfield in the island’s north. The Tokyo court on ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa Prefecture--A scaled-down memorial ... construction in Henoko as a replacement facility for the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

Japanese prosecutors on Okinawa will not pursue charges against a U.S. Marine accused of sexually assaulting and injuring a woman in November, a spokesman said Friday. The Naha Public Prosecutors ...