Residents of the southernmost prefecture harbor anxieties about new threats ... In 1971, the year before Okinawa’s reversion to Japan, the Ryukyu government, the local self-governing body ...

More than 120,000 civilians were killed. After the battle, Okinawa served as a strategic base for the US military to attack the Japanese mainland. That fact -- Okinawa serving as a key foothold of ...

Two years after Okinawa Prefecture was reverted to Japanese control ... purpose of the Naha military port is to ease access to harbor and oil storage facilities. But in February, the U.S. military ...

The Battle of Okinawa lasted from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Two-time Purple Heart recipient LaSota returned to the island for ...

The Japanese Navy had blown up Manila's harbor and destroyed the old city ... The U.S. planned that Okinawa, once captured, would serve as a staging area for an invasion of the main islands.

It hoped that by attacking the fleet at Pearl Harbor it could delay American ... assault the islands of Iwo Jima and then Okinawa, where the Japanese hoped fierce resistance would force a ...

Stille opens with a brief look at the origins of carrier aviation and the ships, aircraft, tactics, and men with which the U.S. and Japan began the war. He then devotes a chapter to the first six ...