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Troops remove WWII-era mortar from Okinawa airport a day after Miyazaki explosion

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese troops removed a second piece of unexploded, World War II-era ordnance in less than a week from Okinawa’s capital city, this time at the airport. The 60-mm mortar shell ...
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‘The right thing to do’: Marine’s son returns mementos collected during Battle of Okinawa

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Lt. Col. Patrick Cichon wanted to personally return Japanese mementos his father collected while serving during World War II’s Battle of Okinawa, but he didn’t have much time.
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs

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 ...
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Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard

Takamatsu Gushiken uses a hand hoe to delicately move dirt in a cave while searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the World War II in 1945, in ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs

Itoman, Japan (CNN) — 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 ...