When 20-year-old Charmning Willie Rowe joined the military to fight alongside his brother in World War II, it wasn’t because ...

ITOMAN, Japan - 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 ...

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

More than 80 years after he was killed in action during one of the fiercest early battles of World War II, U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Pvt. Charmning Rowe has finally returned home to Orlando, Fla.

Peleliu: WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield is available to stream ... So Peleliu Island still has remains of many, many Japanese individuals within not just this cave system here, but the ...

An island haunted by one of the deadliest battles of World War II On April 1 ... 188,140 Japanese killed in the Battle of Okinawa, most of their remains had been collected and placed in the ...

Since the battle’s end, the remains of more than 187,000 people have been recovered, according to the ministry’s website. As of March, Japan had conducted DNA analysis on 7,026 sets of WWII ...

When the remains in the grave were found near the ... Three months after the World War II battle at the Cinquale Canal in northwest Italy, searchers with the U.S. Army’s Graves Registration ...

Takamatsu Gushiken uses a hoe to move dirt while searching for the remains of those who died during the WWII Battle of Okinawa on Itoman. (Hiro Komae/AP) ITOMAN, Japan — Takamatsu Gushiken turns ...

He carefully places them in a ceramic rice bowl and takes a moment to imagine people dying 80 years ago as they hid in this cave during one of the fiercest battles of World War II. His hope is ...

Gushiken shows a tooth of someone believed to have died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of World War II in 1945. (Hiro Komae/AP) In all, 1,280 remains of Japanese war dead ...