Under the cover of a naval bombardment of more than 100,000 shells, the American military began landing on Okinawa at 8:30 am. It was the beginning of a merciless battle that was later described ...

In a surprising announcement on Sunday evening, the Royal Navy revealed that the seventh and final Astute-class ...

NAHA--For decades after the ferocious 1945 Battle of Okinawa, Katsuko Yasumoto freely shared her experiences of the carnage, but always held back on one particularly painful detail: atrocities ...

Gen. Eric Smith said the planned transfer of Okinawa-based Marines to Guam in the coming years will distance the force from a ...

Four hundred American bombers and torpedo carriers converged on the battle group 270 miles north of Okinawa. The U.S. Navy ...

Japanese police on the island of Okinawa arrested four sailors assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command over the weekend in Onna village. By Paul Szoldra Posted on Oct 30, 2019 The top officer in ...

Tokio was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Navy when he was a student at ... said the episode brought home the horror of the Battle of Okinawa, which he had learned about through peace ...

The islands hold relics from the battle to this day ... In April 1945, over 1,300 American naval ships closed in on Okinawa. The Japanese military made a desperate counteroffensive, using more ...

Offshore the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Navy waged the ... that would become commonplace five months later in the battle of Okinawa. As many as sixty-five thousand Japanese soldiers died defending ...

Each gun weighed over 360,000 lbs, or 180 tons, which is more than three M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks ... to lead this last dance. U.S. naval forces around Okinawa received the word about ...