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

Crowl, Campaign in the Marianas, United States Army in World War II (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1960), 191–201. 20. SBB Diary 1944:2, 7 Oct 1944. 22. Roy E. Appleman et al., ...

The relics are grim remnants of the vast tunnel network dug by the Imperial Japanese Army under Shuri-jo castle before the fierce Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Previously closed-off parts of the ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from World War II from a construction site in Okinawa’s capital city over the weekend. Five members of the Japan Ground Self ...

BOSTON--Twenty-two historic artifacts that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa in World War II have been returned to Japan after a family from Massachusetts discovered them in their late ...

In the final days of World War II, an American soldier named Joseph "Benny" Kasser found an abandoned Japanese sword on a ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a traditional katana my grandfather had brought home from Japan in 1945. Years later, I ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true ...

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 ...