In the spring of 1945, the U.S. launched its largest Pacific campaign, sending 1,500 ships and half a million men to seize Okinawa. Marines like Ted Estridge braced for catastrophic losses after ...

Additionally, Okinawa's tourist industry began to market the natural resources of the island, including the beautiful beaches, coral reefs and mangrove swamps (Sarantakes 2000).

The town of Nishihara, at the center of Okinawa Island, lost half of its residents in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Yoshiko Goya, 88, who was born in the town’s Kohatsu area — the site of fierce ...

In 1945, U.S. forces launched a brutal assault on Okinawa’s Maeda Escarpment—later known as Hacksaw Ridge. This video ...

Landing plan at Hagushi Beaches on Okinawa during Operation Downfall April 1, 1945. Aerial photo of the invasion of Okinawa, April 1, 1945. Aerial photo of the invasion of Okinawa, April 1, 1945.

Government spokesman Hiromu Nonaka spoke of the plan during a visit to Okinawa. Nearly a third of the Okinawan civilian population is believed to have died in the 1945 fighting. But the count ...

The severity of the Battle of Okinawa is clear from the heavy casualties, as described in the book The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945 - The Last Epic Struggle of World War II, by US writer Bill Sloan.

Okinawa was declared secured on June 21, 1945, 70 years ago today. The Old Breed was ordered to Yontan in the north of Okinawa where they received replacements. The 1st Marines were assigned to ...

A high school group that held a workshop for junior high school students aims to bring a new approach to peace education by ...

NAHA—Sadayoshi Miyagi has continued searching for a specific rock in the southern part of the main Okinawa island where he left the body of his brother 76 years ago.