Tragic story of young nurses' fate in Battle of Okinawa goes overseas

The story of a group of young women who were drafted from high school to the front lines of the Battle of Okinawa as Imperial Japanese Army nurses is being told through a traveling exhibition, with the many who tragically died serving as a lesson on the horrors suffered by Japanese civilians in the conflict.The Himeyuri student corps, or Lily Corps, were a group of 222 students and 18 teachers from the Okinawa First Girls' High School and the Okinawa Female Normal School who were ordered by the Japanese army to serve on the front lines of what is widely considered the bloodiest battle in Wo…READ FULL ARTICLE