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Of 70,000 Marines that fought there, more than 6,800 were killed and 19,000 were wounded. On the Japanese side, about 18,000 were killed. Only 216 were captured.
The daughter of an Okinawa-based Marine was hospitalized after falling nearly three stories from a shopping mall escalator near Camp Kinser.
Marine Lance Cpl. Vivencio Bio III remembered hearing a reassuring voice spurring him into a rip current on July 4 to save a woman being sucked out to sea at Blue Cave, a popular diving spot on Okinawa.
Japanese police arrested a Marine from Camp Kinser early Sunday on suspicion of trespassing after he allegedly smashed a car window outside a home in Naha city, according to a police spokesman.
A Japanese court handed a Marine sergeant a one-year suspended sentence for a small of amount of LSD found at his residence on Camp Kinser.