A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa ... and the Imperial Army followed with its own ...

fold in the earth just north of Naha, U.S. Tenth Army infantrymen found out for sure what they had suspected all along: Okinawa would ... be but one outcome to the battle—U.S. victory.

part of the Okinawa Army Hospital. “Soon after the battle commenced, the Himeyuri students were mobilized,” the museum says. “Real war proved to be different from anything they had imagined.” ...

A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima.

Walter LaSota was blown out of a foxhole by a Japanese bomb the first time he was wounded during the World War II Battle of Okinawa ... Marines relieved the U.S. Army’s 27th Infantry Division ...