ITOMAN, Okinawa Prefecture—A search of a cave here uncovered the bones of six adults and two children who likely died during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. The bones were collected in late February ...

The light from his headlamp revealed a dark space surrounded by rocks inside the cave, where remnants from the 1945 Battle of Okinawa were scattered. Matsunaga, 68, found several hundred items ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest ... grandmother and I were hiding in a small natural cave on the coast. We did not have any food or water." Many civilians hid in ...

They doused the cave with a flamethrower ... U.S. forces had launched a mopping-up operation in the south. The Battle of Okinawa had entered its final stage. Naval forces circled around to ...

The Battle of Okinawa, fought against US-led forces ... She survived by hiding in caves, going for days without food. "I thanked the gods. I felt I owed my survival to Heaven and Earth," she ...

During the Battle of Okinawa, civilians were caught between ... between civilians and Japanese military. They bombed caves where both were hiding. The deadly sweeps continued until the end of ...