The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...

In 2010, the late John W. Keller, told Patriot-News reporter Matt Miller about his experiences during the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Miller wrote then, “For the sailors aboard the USS ...

• June 22, 1945. The Battle of Okinawa — the last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II ends with victory for the Allied Forces. The Okinawa campaign continued until U.S. forces ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low enough that you have to bend forward as you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bone hunter Takamatsu Gushiken looks for World War II-era remains in a cave on Okinawa. - Brad Lendon/CNN The “bone digger” slides ...