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.

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

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.

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture on June 23 marked its 78th Memorial Day to honor the victims of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. By the end ... when it was under attack by U.S. forces.

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 ...