There aren’t many words to describe the sight of a kamikaze plane dropping down onto a ship, Stan Primmer said. “It’s beyond frightening,” the Rockford farmer said of the morning of June 22, 1945, ...

RAHWAY -- On March 31, 1945, the U.S.S. LST-686, a landing ship, pulled into Keise Shima, a handful of small islets a few miles off the coast of Okinawa. William Mele was 19 and had been on the USS ...

FRAMINGHAM – As he peers at a framed photo of the vessel on which he served during the invasion of Iwo Jima, tears well up in the eyes of Stanley Berman and trickle down his cheek. In the distance of ...

The 1944 Normandy invasion was the largest amphibious operation in history. Less than a year later, American forces hit the beach at Okinawa — the largest landing in the Pacific. Fred Bridges saw them ...