Two months after the U.S. military landed on Okinawa in late March 1945, the 32nd Army decided to withdraw from the Naha headquarters and blow up the tunnels. The headquarters were moved to Mabuni ...

During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army set up bases in Okinawa’s natural caves called “gama.” For more than 40 years, Gushiken has volunteered to go into those caves and search for ...

In the last stages of World War II, the allied forces considered Okinawa a strategic point for ... civilians and Japanese military. They bombed caves where both were hiding. The deadly sweeps ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific ... grandmother and I were hiding in a small natural cave on the coast. We did not have any food ...

In natural caves called "gama" on the island of Okinawa, Izabela retrieves the ... what happened to her own family in Poland during World War II Hoping to give them a deeper understanding of ...