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Survivor of brutal Battle of Okinawa shares worst memories
NAHA--For decades after the ferocious 1945 Battle of Okinawa, Katsuko Yasumoto freely ... chased an Okinawan man and decapitated him with a sword. The Okinawan spoke English as he had lived ...
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80 years after the Battle of Okinawa, bones are still being discovered
The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 people killed or missing — and 80 years later, their bones are still being unearthed by dedicated volunteers. Japan’s southernmost ...
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Why a U.S. Navy captain ordered a military funeral for a kamikaze pilot during WWII's Battle of Okinawa
A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...
80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.
USS Missouri ceremony remembers kamikaze attack during Battle of Okinawa
A solemn anniversary and milestone will be observed this week on board the Battleship USS Missouri.Eighty years ago, on April ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
They would be among the estimated 240,000 people killed or missing in the Battle of Okinawa, from the landing of the US invasion force on April 1, 1945, to the Americans’ declaration of victory ...