Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from World War II from a construction site in Okinawa’s ...

Japanese troops last week defused another American-made shell believed to be left over from World War II and removed it from ...

Thirty ships had been sunk and almost 400 others were damaged. The attack on the Fifth Fleet off Okinawa would mark the worst losses of World War II for the U.S. Navy.

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific ... The area was under attack incessantly and the body count increased every day.

Many of them were killed while under attack ... opened 50 years after Okinawa Prefecture, placed under U.S. administration following Japan’s defeat in World War II, was returned to Japanese ...

Services were held Monday for Gilbert "Gil" Nadeau, who survived kamikaze attacks while serving aboard a Navy landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Nadeau died Oct. 19 ...