Narration The number of civilian dead was overwhelming ... residents of Okinawa drafted by the military just before the Battle of Okinawa under the system called defense conscription.

As the battle came to an end, large numbers of civilians committed suicide ... become commonplace five months later in the battle of Okinawa. As many as sixty-five thousand Japanese soldiers ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

The Americans intensified their attacks, and a growing number of civilians died in the crossfire, many of them from the village. Mark Waycaster is curator of the Battle of Okinawa History Display ...

But this year's anniversary passed more quietly than usual, due both to the coronavirus pandemic and the dwindling number of witnesses left to tell their stories. The Battle of Okinawa erupted in ...

Now, at age 92, Onaga sees parallels between the Battle of Okinawa and the war in Ukraine. Huge numbers of civilians were embroiled in the 1945 battle, just as now in Ukraine. An estimated 120,000 ...

was in her 30s when she began sharing her accounts of the battle to students visiting Okinawa from other parts of the country. But the one topic she could never bear to talk about was the number ...

Though their numbers are dwindling — most are in ... Key moments during the battle for Okinawa On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, the most audacious and complex enterprise undertaken by the ...

An impressive number of six-inch guns adorned ... American bombers and torpedo carriers converged on the battle group 270 ...

The war in the Pacific was long and bloody -- when the final battle came, it was perhaps the fercest of all. At Okinawa, over 250,000 soldiers fought a desperate, 82-day battle that only half ...