The third shell was found Feb. 8 and removed March 25 from a site near an elementary school in the Ozato district of Nanjo ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

The Battle of Okinawa lasted from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Two-time Purple Heart recipient LaSota returned to the island for ...

Despite decades of clearance efforts, roughly 1,900 metric tons of deadly remnants are estimated to remain buried beneath the ...

A Groesbeck teenager was among twelve Young Marines from across the country who traveled to Guam and Iwo Jima to honor the ...

A Bucks County teen just made a trip across the globe to commemorate a major anniversary in a World War II battle.

In a now-viral video, a flight attendant honors a Battle of Iwo Jima survivor named Gordy, who celebrated his 100th birthday ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday paid their respects to the war dead on Ioto Island in the Pacific, the ...

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 ...

Dignitaries from the federal government, military officials, and families of those killed in the World War II battle of Iwo Jima traveled to Japan to mark 80 years since the U.S. wrestled control ...

He will be the first sitting prime minister to visit the island since April 2013, when then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ...