Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...

KIN BLUE BEACH, Okinawa — An hourlong amphibious landing by U.S. Marines and Japanese ... environment it has seen since the end of World War II,” Maj. Gen. Hajime Kitajima, commander of ...

Japan takes Guam and Wake Island in the central pacific. Japan invades Hong Kong ... After the first U.S. amphibious landing of the war, American marines gain a foothold by capturing the airport.

Services were held Monday for Gilbert "Gil" Nadeau, who survived kamikaze attacks while serving aboard a Navy landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Nadeau died Oct. 19 ...

They reported on an hourlong amphibious landing exercise carried out by ... security environment it has seen since the end of World War II … This exercise is not aimed at a certain country ...