On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, the USS Laffey museum ship at Patriots Point was honored and a ...

Ernie Pyle, one of America's most recognized war correspondents, was killed while covering the Battle of Okinawa during World ...

Participants accuse the government of discriminating against civilian victims and people from the former Japanese colonies ...

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COURTESY U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Ernie Pyle and sailors listen to war reports aboard USS Charles Carroll while en route to Okinawa. 1 /5 COURTESY U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Ernie Pyle and sailors listen to ...

After searching in conditions that included heavy rain, thunder, and lightning, lifeguards found one of the boys while a Good ...

Retired Air Force Maj. Tom Cowan, the cousin of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle, with his daughter, Angelica Shaklee, salutes after laying flowers near the spot where Pyle was killed, on Ie Shima, ...

The Battle of Okinawa began late March and was the only ground battle involving civilians fought in Japan. Prefectural records state that one in four Okinawans, or about 120,000, was killed in the ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

Patriots Point hosted special events on Wednesday dedicated to honoring the legacy of veterans of the infamous kamikaze attack on the USS Laffey during the Battle of Okinawa on its 80th anniversary.

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM Chaplin Hurst of the Pacific Air Forces paused in front of Ernie Pyle’s grave site. The Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation put on the service at the National ...