The war in the Pacific was long and bloody -- when the final battle came, it was perhaps the fercest of all. At Okinawa, over 250,000 soldiers fought a desperate, 82-day battle that only half would ...

A man cries in front of the Cornerstone of Peace monument walls on which the names of all those who lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa ...

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 avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...

Joe Shuttlesworth had no way of knowing it at the time, but the then 19-year-old Marine was about to engage in the last major battle of World War II. Now 97, the Sudan native recently recalled the 81 ...

Joe Shuttlesworth had no way of knowing it at the time, but the then 19-year-old Marine was about to engage in the last major battle of World War II. Now 97, the Lubbockite recently recalled the 81 ...

Brevard resident James Milton Fletcher served in the U.S. Army Reserves from June 6, 1944-December 1956. He served as Rifleman in the 184th Regiment, fighting in the last battle of World War II, the ...

TOKYO — Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family prayed on Wednesday in Okinawa for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II that was fought on the southern Japanese island 80 ...

Okinawa was the site of the last battle of WWII. Through it all, cameramen risked their lives to film the conflict, from land combat to kamikaze attacks. See the footage they captured and experience ...