The Battle of Okinawa is one of the bloodiest and most tragic chapters of the Pacific war, claiming the lives of 110,000 Japanese troops, 140,000 Okinawan civilians and 12,520 American servicemembers.
Japanese troops last week defused another American-made shell believed to be left over from World War II and removed it from ...
The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alice Miller, 104, had her WWII uniform added to museum in Gibsonburg. World War II U.S. Navy nurse’s uniform in Northcoast Veterans Museum.
The Battle of Okinawa lasted about three months toward the end of World War II and killed an estimated one in four local civilians. Survivors began their postwar lives by collecting human remains ...
In the last stages of World War II, the allied forces considered Okinawa a strategic point for attacking Japan's main islands. The US mobilized about half a million personnel, far outnumbering the ...
The FBI says it has returned 22 artifacts to Japan that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa after a Massachusetts family going through their late World War II veteran father’s personal ...
He discusses World War II-era munitions in "The Pacific," starring ... He describes the many challenges of the Battle of Okinawa as portrayed in "Hacksaw Ridge," starring Andrew Garfield, Vince ...
During that year was the last battle for Okinawa. It was a rough battle ... the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal. “She did it in a different way than most ...