Under the cover of a naval bombardment of more than 100,000 shells, the American military began landing on Okinawa at 8:30 am. It was the beginning of a merciless battle that was later described ...

Japanese police on the island of Okinawa arrested four sailors assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command over the weekend in Onna village. By Paul Szoldra Posted on Oct 30, 2019 The top officer in ...

Known as “Floating Chrysanthemums,” the naval portion of the Battle of Okinawa saw more than 1,400 kamikaze attacks against ...

The Fletcher-class destroyers were the most numerous and arguably among the most versatile warships of World War II, with 175 ...

Tokio was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Navy when he was a student at ... said the episode brought home the horror of the Battle of Okinawa, which he had learned about through peace ...

The islands hold relics from the battle to this day ... In April 1945, over 1,300 American naval ships closed in on Okinawa. The Japanese military made a desperate counteroffensive, using more ...

Now, at age 92, Onaga sees parallels between the Battle of Okinawa and the war in Ukraine. Huge numbers of civilians were embroiled in the 1945 battle, just as now in Ukraine. An estimated 120,000 ...

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 ...

The Chinese dual aircraft carrier operations came as USS George Washington, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, was participating in a military exercise between U.S. and Japanese forces in the Philippine ...