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 ...

looking to turn up the remains of people who hid in caves like this one during the World War II Battle of Okinawa. This is the life’s work of the bone digger, Takamatsu Gushiken. He spends much ...

The arrival of the American military in Okinawa in the spring of 1945 marked the beginning of one of the bloodiest battles in ...

Gushiken tries to imagine being in the cave during the fighting ... Of the estimated 188,140 Japanese killed in the Battle of Okinawa, most of their remains had been collected and placed in ...

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 ...

Clarence Craft earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in May 1945. Here, 6th Division Marines ...

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 ...

Martin, of Niles, Mich., was killed when a shell fragment struck him in the chest on May 15, 1945, as 6th Marine Division fought to take Sugar Loaf Hill in Okinawa’s capital city, Naha, according 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 ...