An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

The Battle of Okinawa lasted from April 1 to June 22 ... His regiment followed LaSota’s. “The 22nd Marines were ahead of us, and they were shot through,” McCallum, 98, of Seffner, Fla., ...

Many of the Marines have been shifted to Guam at the insistence ... internet for the first time exactly as they were written then. The first story, Okinawa: The final battle revisited, is largely the ...

Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith carries what are believed to be the remains of a fallen Marine killed in 1942 during the Battle of ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed the pilot ...

“Soon after the battle commenced ... and the legacy of what the Marines accomplished on Okinawa.