A map shows the positions of cannons and machine ... guard down for even a second," he writes on April 1, 1945. "The battle of Okinawa is in its final stages. We’re up next.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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