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

He’s found a bullet, too, and theorizes what might have happened at this spot eight decades ago: A mother and child hid as the battle ... and Okinawa conscripts, and more than 12,000 American ...

It was 80 years ago today when the Battle of Okinawa commenced during World War ... During this part of the conflict, an American combat medic called Desmond Doss saved an estimated 75 men.

They would be among the estimated 240,000 people killed or missing in the Battle of Okinawa, from the landing of the US invasion force on April 1, 1945, to the Americans’ declaration of victory on ...

Walter LaSota was blown out of a foxhole by a Japanese bomb the first time he was wounded during the World War II Battle of Okinawa ... Birle chair in American History at Villanova University.