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 ...

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.

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 ...

The FBI says it has returned 22 artifacts to Japan that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa after ... a hand-drawn map of Okinawa dating back to the 19th century, and various pieces ...

The image shows a hand-drawn map of Okinawa dating back to the 19th ... The World War II Battle of Okinawa was fought between the US and Japanese forces on the island which was said to be the ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Total American ground losses on Okinawa reached approximately 7,300. Today there are roughly 205 unaccounted for soldiers and marines from ...

The Battle of Okinawa erupted in the final stages of World War Two and lasted more than three months. By the end of it, over 200,000 soldiers and civilians were dead.

His 2-year-old brother, Teiso, is one of thousands of casualties of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa whose ... he walked around the southern part of Okinawa island with a map in his hand every time ...