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, but none of ...

Okinawa was then annexed into modern Japan. After becoming one of the bloodiest battle sites in the Pacific War, the southernmost island prefecture came under U.S. military rule for 27 years.

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. LaSota, a private with I Company, 22nd Marine Regiment ...

Maj. Zachary M. Sessa led the Black Knights attack squadron on multiple strikes against Houthi weapons facilities in Yemen.

A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima, marking the first such discovery on the island in more than 20 years ...

Roughly 100,000 Japanese military and 50,000 Okinawans were ... a US Department of Defense school teacher who curates the Okinawa Battle Sites Facebook page, is also invested in the battle site ...

A native of Pennsylvania, the US military spouse and US Department of Defense school teacher curates the Okinawa Battle Sites Facebook page. The rear of her Subaru station wagon is part war ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County. It was ...

NAHA—Less than a week after joint Japan-U.S. anti-crime patrols started in Okinawa Prefecture, police here on April 23 announced that two U.S. Marine Corps members have been accused of sexual ...