80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
He spends much of his free time in caves like this in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture ... according to the National World War II Museum in Louisiana. Those lives were lost in a ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
Itoman, Japan (CNN) — The “bone digger” slides ... 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 ...