The sky erupted in a hail of tracer fire as USS Shea's guns roared to life. It was May 4, 1945, and the destroyer minelayer ...

I dreamt last night that all the writers and editors at the Star-Advertiser were in meetings, sick or on vacation, and I had ...

On Thursday, 18 pieces of ordnance believed to date to WWII were detonated on land at Kubasu Beach on Miyakojima, an island ...

Public ceremony to honor Sgt. Harold M. Weaver, who died in combat on Okinawa in 1945. His remains recently were identified after nearly 80 years.

U.S. Air Force weather preparedness training on one of Japan’s westernmost islands has drawn complaints from local and regional authorities, who say they were not informed of the full extent of the ...

Tents are pitched on a grassless terrain. Supply trucks are parked next to some of the tents. A few servicemen are seen walking. Image and original data provided courtesy of the National Library of ...

In the smoldering wake of World War II, few places bore the scars of conflict like Japan. Cities lay in ruins, infrastructure crumbled, and entire populations were left homeless. Into this devastation ...

This combination of two photographs shows Japanese residents of Okinawa rounded up by American soldiers, on April 10, 1945, during the U.S. invasion of the island in southwestern Japan.

Anti-U.S. base protesters sit outside the gate of Camp Schwab as a military vehicle passes by in Okinawa, Japan, Mar. 21, 2016. Credit: Depositphotos Subscribe for ads-free reading Okinawa, ...