The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs.

The war in the Pacific was long and bloody -- when the final battle came, it was perhaps the fercest of all. At Okinawa, over 250,000 soldiers fought a desperate, 82-day battle that only half ...

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 ...

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 ...

He describes the many challenges of the Battle of Okinawa as portrayed in "Hacksaw ... rates the accuracy of World War II battles in movies and TV shows. He looks at the bombing raids in "Masters ...

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 ...

T he Battle of Okinawa turns 75 as one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War, which took place from late March to June ...

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 ...