More than 120,000 civilians were killed. After the battle, Okinawa served as a strategic base for the US military to attack the Japanese mainland. That fact -- Okinawa serving as a key foothold of ...

The Battle of Okinawa turns 75 as one of the ... Though defeated in the battle for the island, the Japanese pointed out to ...

The Battle of Okinawa, fought against US-led forces, claimed the lives of more than 200 thousand civilians and soldiers. About one quarter of the entire population of Okinawa was wiped out.

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 ...

Okinawa was then annexed into modern Japan. After becoming one of the bloodiest battle sites in the Pacific War, the southernmost island prefecture came under U.S. military rule for 27 years.

but the experience and massive casualties, along with those suffered at the following Battle of Okinawa, forced the US to think twice about invading the Japanese mainland. Despite having a surface ...

ITOMAN, Okinawa Prefecture--A memorial service held at the Peace Memorial Park here on June 23 paid tribute to the more than 200,000 Japanese and U.S. casualties from the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese ordnance disposal experts plan to defuse two suspected World War II-era bombs found last ...

However, it was the civilian casualties that stunned ... commonplace five months later in the battle of Okinawa. As many as sixty-five thousand Japanese soldiers died defending Leyte.

But the casualties were so extensive that ... called "gama," throughout Okinawa. In the Battle of Okinawa, residents and Japanese soldiers used them as their refuges and field hospitals.