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 ...

Okinawa Memorial Day, observed on June 23, is a day for mourning the victims of the savage ground warfare in the final months of World War II and praying for permanent peace. One in four Okinawans ...

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 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 ...

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 ...