We found a former Marine who survived the battle of Sugarloaf Hill. Former corporal Joe Drago was 19 when he was sent to Okinawa. Army intelligence released an analysis of Japanese army tactics.

They were young Americans who either volunteered for service or were drafted and ended up in Okinawa. Eugene B. Sledge (1923-2001), a U.S. Marine who survived the battle, chronicled his ...

The Battle of Okinawa erupted in the final stages of ... The US and Japanese governments have agreed to relocate the US Marine Corps Futenma Air station to a less populated area within the prefecture.

and misery of the 82-day battle for Okinawa was disheartening for the Marines. For Jack Hoag and George Niland, with the 6th Marine Division, the future seemed bleak. On Okinawa, both had ...

Currently, there are 19,000 U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa. The island location is ... where the island was the site of a bloody battle that claimed the lives of 200,000 people, including ...

NAHA--For decades after the ferocious 1945 Battle of Okinawa, Katsuko Yasumoto freely shared her experiences of the carnage, but always held back on one particularly painful detail: atrocities ...

Okinawa saw 82 days of brutal warfare in horrific conditions at places like Kakazu Ridge, Sugar Loaf Hill and Kunishi Ridge. U.S. Marines and Army troops fought a bloody battle of attrition ...

“Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II,” is No. 8 on James Hallas’ well-regarded list of titles covering ...

The Naha District Public Prosecutor's Office decided Thursday not to indict a U.S. Marine who had been investigated for alleged sexual assault in Okinawa Prefecture, citing insufficient evidence.

(Mainichi/Nozomu Takeuchi) NAHA (Kyodo) -- A U.S. Marine was not indicted for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman last year in Okinawa Prefecture, prosecutors said Thursday. The serviceman in ...