April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the colossal Japanese battleship Yamato, a maritime behemoth, set sail for ...

The United States launched a massive invasion of the Japanese home island of Okinawa, with an initial landing of 60,000 soldiers and marines, on this day in history, April 1, 1945. The Battle of ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low ...

In 2010, the late John W. Keller, told Patriot-News reporter Matt Miller about his experiences during the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Miller wrote then, “For the sailors aboard the USS ...

On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 180,000 U.S. Army and Marine Corps troops descended on the island of Okinawa. The goal of “Operation Iceberg” was to occupy the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. On ...

Here is a slightly revised version of a package of stories we first ran five years ago, commemorating the final land battle of the Pacific in World War II. The largest amphibious invasion of the ...

There was no joking on April 1, 1945. That was when a major invasion began at Okinawa and lasted for the next 82 days, finally ending on June 22. There were several from our region who were either on ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) — Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum is hosting a memorial to honor fallen sailors from a historic battle on Tuesday. Thirty-two sailors were killed in the Battle of ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A solemn anniversary and milestone will be observed this week on board the Battleship USS Missouri. Eighty years ago, on April 11, 1945, the USS Missouri was involved with ...

The World War II Battle of Okinawa left an estimated 240,000 people killed or missing — and 80 years later, their bones are still being unearthed by dedicated volunteers. Japan’s southernmost ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa — Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his name has been added to a memorial honoring the nearly 250,000 people who died ...