Okinawa divers pray for souls of sunken U.S. warship crew

Okinawa divers pray for souls of sunken U.S. warship crew

Takeshi Sugiura (front) and another diver put flowers on the screw of what appears to be a U.S. World War II mine sweeper and pray for the souls of its crew members at a depth of 40 meters in the sea 3 km off Kouri, an island in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 15, 2015, the 70th anniversary of the war's end. ==Kyodo

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