Two U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan are under investigation for alleged rapes, police say, the latest in a string of assault ...

during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed the pilot, but none of the battleship's crew members were badly hurt. The Missouri's captain ordered a military burial at sea with ...

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. LaSota, a private with I Company, 22nd Marine Regiment ...

Pfc. Harry LeBert was a young Marine and father of two who — having just recovered from injuries received in the Battle of ...

Two US marines in Japan’s Okinawa are under investigation for alleged rapes, police said Thursday, the latest in a string of ...

Relatives of war correspondent Ernie Pyle gathered with Marines in Okinawa for a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of his ...

Okinawa was then annexed into modern Japan. After becoming one of the bloodiest battle sites in the Pacific War, the southernmost island prefecture came under U.S. military rule for 27 years.

A native of Pennsylvania, the US military spouse and US Department of Defense school teacher curates the Okinawa Battle Sites Facebook page. The rear of her Subaru station wagon is part war ...

Roughly 100,000 Japanese military and 50,000 Okinawans were ... a US Department of Defense school teacher who curates the Okinawa Battle Sites Facebook page, is also invested in the battle site ...

Shinichi Gibo survived the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 at the age of 6, but he has lived with a persistent trauma ever since.

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel.