Mysteries still shroud a tragedy 80 years ago in which many civilian passengers died in U.S. military attacks on running ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

Some civilians had been evacuated, but most were still on Okinawa when the battle began on April 1, 1945. By mid-May, the Japanese 32nd Army was retreating south to its final line of defense at ...

World War II brought even greater devastation to the island. The Battle of Okinawa in 1945, one of the war’s bloodiest, claimed the lives of nearly a third of the civilian population.

when people in the prefecture console the spirits of those who died in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. A memorial ceremony is held in Mabuni in the city of Itoman, where the last major battle in ...

The invasion of Japan loomed. The Japanese military stationed about 100,000 troops on Okinawa, with the aim of preventing the invasion of the mainland. Narration Imperial Headquarters of the ...

Okinawa saw 82 days of brutal warfare in horrific ... How many more Americans would die before the war could end? The events of summer 1945 — including the use of two atomic bombs on the ...

Tents are pitched on a grassless terrain. Supply trucks are parked next to some of the tents. A few servicemen are seen walking. Image and original data provided courtesy of the National Library of ...

That fact -- Okinawa serving as a key foothold of the US military -- is unchanged even now. The United States and its Allies launched the massive operation in March, 1945. The Allies considered ...