Unearthing Okinawa’s forgotten war dead
Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa ...
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Explosion shakes Okinawa wharf as Japan clears unexploded WWII ordnance
Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit set off ...
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99-year-old WWII veteran Frank Wright returns to Guam in months, this time with 6 others
Today, seven American World War II veterans, including 99-year-old Frank Wright who was here in July, are set to return to ...
Volunteer discovers over a thousand World War II casualties’ remains which await identification
Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s Okinawa's jungle. Over 80 years since a major battle, Gushiken shared with ...
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Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
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 ...
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The heroic legacy of Father Lawrence Lynch, the ‘Holy Hurricane’ of WWII: Our Neighborhood, The Way It Was
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, where Father Lawrence Lynch, a brave Irish-American priest is remembered ...
80 years since one of the bloodiest Pacific battles of World War II
80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in ...
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An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
Takamatsu Gushiken uses a hand hoe to delicately move dirt in a cave while searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the World War II in 1945 ...
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An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
ITOMAN, Japan (AP) — Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle ... one of the fiercest battles of World War II. His hope is that the dead can be ...