This is the third and final episode of the story of Don McPherson - an F6F Hellcat ace from Fighter Squadron 83, flying off ...

The breaking of baseball’s color line ... fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal, in the South Pacific, hell, they can play baseball in America.” At the end of World War II, professional ...

Perhaps no world cinema industry in the last few decades has had an effect on Hollywood cinema quite like the imports of ...

What makes watching this a whole new experience is the addition of color ... At Peleliu and Okinawa’ by Eugene Sledge and ‘Helmet for My Pillow’ by Robert Leckie. Both writers were former US Marines ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...

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

I'm afraid there is a growing risk that Okinawa may become a battlefield again." Island haunted by one of World War II's deadliest battles On April 1, 1945, U.S. troops landed on Okinawa during ...

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

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...

Gushiken says when he was a child growing up in Okinawa's capital, Naha, he would go out hunting bugs and find skulls still wearing helmets. Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II ...