CNN Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown October 25, 2015 23:02:00
Up for anyone to eat. maybe you're more familiar with the name, okinawa, from this, as the setting for some of the most horrifyingly bloody battles of the second world war. how horrifying? for the allies, there were more than 50,000 casualties with around 12,000 killed or missing in action. over nearly three months of fighting. more than 100,000 japanese soldiers and okinawan conscripts were killed defending the island. civilians were stuck in the middle of the two armies and got crushed. no one will know for sure, but historians estimate 150,000 men, women, and children lost their lives durin...