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Japanese troops defuse WWII-era shell at Okinawa Expressway construction site
Japanese troops last week defused another American-made shell believed to be left over from World War II and removed it from ...
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“Our Flag Will Wave Over All of Okinawa”: Simon Bolivar Buckner’s Pacific War
United States Army in World War II (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1960), 191–201. 20. SBB Diary 1944:2, 7 Oct 1944. 22. Roy E. Appleman et al., Okinawa: The Last Battle, United ...
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Joint training prepares US, Japan for aircraft mishaps on Okinawa
During the Bilateral Aircraft Mishap Functional Training Exercise, U.S. Navy sailors and Japanese emergency responders ...
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Sections of WWII tunnel complex in Okinawa opened to media
Two months after the U.S. military landed on Okinawa in late March 1945, the 32nd Army decided to withdraw from the Naha headquarters and blow up the tunnels. The headquarters were moved to Mabuni ...
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'Going the Wrong Way:' Booting Marines from Okinawa Could Embolden China, Commandant Says
The commandant of the Marine Corps expressed concern Wednesday over a U.S. agreement with the ... international security aims. Okinawa was under post-World War II occupation until 1972, but ...
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Okinawa to preserve army’s underground HQ in 1945 battle
NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served ... the site for the first time after World War II, the prefectural government later ...