The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

The flag, stained with blood, was recovered after the ferocious World War II battle for Okinawa. McDougall, a retired combat engineer, is now limited in his mobility and Friedreich's ataxia has ...

OLYMPIA -- The flag of a father is going home to Japan, more than 68 years after it was retrieved from a cave during the bloody World War II battle for control of Okinawa.

The flag was folded inside an album of war photographs left by Mercer, who died in 2003 at age 83, Hahn said in a telephone interview Wednesday. The family knew he served on Okinawa but not many ...