The ship and its crew fought off 22 kamikaze planes for over 80 minutes ... Kyle Sinisi, a history professor at The Citadel, ...

NAHA--Kiyoshi Uezu and his parents lived through the Battle of Okinawa, but he feels they never truly “survived” the war. Both Okinawa and the Uezu family have a long history of suffering and ...

The first episode of the series covers January-March 1945, which includes the battles of Iwo Jima and Manila, the firebombing ...

They would be among the estimated 240,000 people killed or missing in the Battle ... those who fought World War II, and the legacy of what the Marines accomplished on Okinawa.

The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 people killed or missing — and 80 years later, their bones are still being unearthed by dedicated volunteers. Japan’s southernmost ...

Ota survived the bloody Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II ... Ota vigorously opposed the plan and fought against the government. Onaga served as secretary-general of the Okinawa ...

A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima, marking the first such discovery on the island in more than 20 years ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County. It was ...