69th anniv. of end of Okinawa battle marked

69th anniv. of end of Okinawa battle marked

ITOMAN, Japan - Family members of a corps of female students mobilized as nurses for Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 attend a memorial service in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 23, 2014, the 69th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa in World War II.

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