# Historians battle over Okinawa WW2 mass suicides #### (2007) - Linda Sieg **Link**:: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-history-okinawa-idUST29175620070406 **DOI**:: **Links**:: **Tags**:: #paper **Cite Key**:: [@Sieg2007-ey] ### Abstract ``` Sumie Oshiro was 25 when she and her friends tried to kill themselves to avoid capture by U.S. soldiers at the start of the bloody Battle of Okinawa. ``` ### Notes