A photographer from Wisconsin believed to be the first female American journalist killed in a war has become an honorary Marine. Dickey Chapelle was 47 when she was killed by shrapnel from an exploding land mine while covering the Vietnam War in 1965. She'd also ...
The Defense Ministry on Friday said it would continue to let Ospreys fly in Japan after receiving U.S. assurances the tilt-rotor aircraft is safe despite last week's fatal MV-22 crash off Australia. The U.S. Marine Corps MV-22, which was based in Okinawa, crashed on Saturday ...
The U.S. Marine Corps may ground its fleet of Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft as well as other planes to conduct a safety review following a crash in Australia that killed three Marines, a defense official said Monday. The Japan-based Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed Saturday during an ...
The Australian government said on Sunday it would deploy its armed forces to assist in recovery efforts after the U.S. Marine Corps suspended its search for three Marines missing since their aircraft crashed off Australia's northeast coast a day earlier. The Marine Corps said earlier ...
Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda on Friday said he would support a plan to bring dozens of U.S. carrier-based aircraft to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture under an agreement reached between Tokyo and Washington on the realignment of U.S. forces in ...
A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey was undamaged and no crew members were injured after the tilt-rotor aircraft made an emergency landing Saturday at Amami airport in Kagoshima Prefecture, a Japanese government source said. The U.S. military explained it was a preventive landing to avoid an ...
The U.S. Marine Corps said Tuesday it has sent a squadron of F-35B fighters to Japan, marking the first operational overseas deployment for the controversial jet that is facing scrutiny from President-elect Donald Trump. The planes' deployment to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi ...
The U.S. forces announcement follows the ditching of an Osprey off Okinawa earlier this month.
Tuesday's crash involving a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft off Okinawa was most likely not the result of mechanical error, the top commander of the U.S. military in Japan told Defense Minister Tomomi Inada in a phone call on Wednesday, according to government ...
A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft ditched off Okinawa on Tuesday night in the first major accident involving the tilt-rotor transport aircraft in Japan. The five crew members aboard ejected from the aircraft and were rescued by the U.S. military, the Defense Ministry said. ...
A U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot whose F/A-18 crashed into the Pacific Ocean has been confirmed dead, a U.S. official said Thursday. The F/A-18 crashed into the sea south of Koichi Prefecture late Wednesday afternoon when it was flying with another aircraft within air space ...
U.S. Forces Japan said Thursday that the fireworks ban was to demonstrate respect for Okinawan residents.
