Launched in 2014, the Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) is a public history project with a team of faculty, staff, alumni, graduate and undergraduate students. OMI employs methodologies of experiential learning and community service to explore the dramatic changes in life, society and environment experienced by the islanders in the aftermath of the Battle of Okinawa. Training and employing up to 75 undergraduate and graduate students to do oral history interviews, archival research and processing, and media production in collaboration with partners in Okinawa and among the Okinawan diaspora in North America, OMI has conducted 7 research exhibitions on historical photography and 30 oral histories in Okinawa to date. With COR FRG funding from 2021 and a Luce Foundation grant, we are organizing, digitizing and creating exhibitions of the collections of the Okinawa Association of America in Gardena, CA.