Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...

Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...

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 the ...

Eighty years on from the Battle of Okinawa during World War II, the remains of some of those killed are still being ...

The next battle, Okinawa, continued to show the brutality of the Bushido mentality of the Japanese Imperial military, as was displayed throughout the whole war. Kamakazi planes and Banzai charge ...

Residents of the Manhattan high-rise had spotted ambulances outside the building early that morning but told The U.S. Sun Trachtenberg’s death and secret health battle had come as a major shock.

Henry Kelly, who presented TV shows such as Going for Gold and Game for a Laugh, has died aged 78. The beloved Irish presenter’s family said he “died peacefully” on Tuesday “after a period of ill ...