Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit set off ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...

But the wooded mountain ranges now carry radar sites. A southern cattle ranch ... Fear of a Taiwan war rekindles bitter memories here of the Battle of Okinawa, in which about 200,000 people ...

despite the famous flag-raising four days into the battle, did not come for another month. Advancing U.S. troops trying to establish the location of a Japanese machine-gun nest on a map so as to ...

one of the battle sites. A few survivors of the war attended along with U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson. "It need not have happened, but it did," said Lourdes Montinola ...

Returning the Ō-Rākau battle site to tūpuna ownership will help to recognise the past and safeguard their stories for the benefit of future generations, Minister for Māori Crown Relations Tama ...

They were witnessing the final reading of the Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill, which vests the 9.7ha battle site, 5km east of Kihikihi, in a body representing the descendants of ngā tūpuna o Ō-Rāka ...

which were built after the United States stormed Okinawa during a bloody battle in 1945.

"An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us on the Japanese who are holed up in the northern edges of the island," he narrates, as one of the most ferocious battles of WWII ...

Subscribe Login Register Log out My Profile Subscriber Services Search PGe NEWSLETTERS PG STORE ARCHIVES OBITUARIES JOBS PUBLIC NOTICES REAL ESTATE CLASSIFIEDS EVENTS PETS CONTACT US ADVERTISING ...