That number includes as many as 100,000 civilians, 110,000 Japanese troops and Okinawa conscripts, and more than 12,000 American and allied troops, according to the National World War II Museum in ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Battleships and Carriers: WW2 Battleship Game Move ... Pearl Harbor and Lamansh to the Iwo Jima and Okinawa battle, with over 50 ship and aircraft ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

I'm afraid there is a growing risk that Okinawa may become a battlefield again.” An island haunted by one of the deadliest battles of World War II On April 1, 1945, U.S. troops landed on Okinawa ...

The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo city. Eight EOD troops defused the shell by mid-morning that day, a city ...

A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima.

Itoman, Japan (CNN) — The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully ...