to take refuge threw themselves off the cliffs, one after another. Former corporal Glenn Nuyt participated in the mopping up operations in southern Okinawa. The scenes he saw then are burned into ...

Okinawa Prefecture’s years-long battle to stop the central government building a U.S. base on its soil has come to naught after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal over the last lawsuit on ...

By Martin Fackler and Kiuko Notoya Reporting from Henoko, Okinawa Keiko Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn’t open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

Throughout the Pacific Theater, US military units must overcome jungle terrain riddled with cliffs, poisonous creatures ... at Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan. "The Special Forces detachment ...