Okinawa Campaign Photographs | World War II Database

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Cabbage booby-trapped by Japanese troops using a Type 97 grenade, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945	F6F-5 Hellcat rests on the flight deck of USS Bataan as Marine and Navy Honor Guards prepare for a burial at sea off Okinawa, April 18 1945	Journalist Ernie Pyle shortly after being killed on Iejima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, 18 Apr 1945	US Marine Corporal Harold Flagg and his war dog Boy posing with a Japanese flag, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945. Note the battle dressing on the dog's fore leg.

US Marine Private First Class Fred Muscard cleaning himself while his war dog Lux stood on guard, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945	Machinato Inlet immediately after combat, Okinawa, Japan, 19 Apr 1945; note wrecked M29 Weasel vehicles on the road	US Army 8-in Howitzer M1 firing on Japanese position, Okinawa, Japan, 19 Apr 1945	US Army soldiers crossing the Machinato Inlet on foot bridge, Okinawa, Japan, morning of 19 Apr 1945

US Marine Private Grady Hogue on a horse, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945	Two wrecked M4 Sherman tanks at Bloody Ridge, destroyed by Japanese artillery, Okinawa, Japan, 20 Apr 1945	Essex received provisions via highline from USS Mercury (AK-42), off Okinawa, 27 Apr 1945	Anti-aircraft tracers in the night sky above Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 28 Apr 1945; note US Marine Corps Corsair fighters in foreground

USS San Diego assisting USS Haggard after the latter was hit by Japanese special attack, off Okinawa, Japan, 29 Apr 1945	A Marine of the US 1st Marines Division pointed his Thompson submachine gun at a Japanese sniper, Okinawa, Japan, Apr-Jun 1945	A salvo from USS North Carolina hitting a land target at Okinawa, Japan, 1945	Aerial photo of the town of Ie on Ie Jima, Japan, circa 1945

American flamethrower tank attacking a Japanese-held cave, Okinawa, Japan, circa Apr-Jun 1945	American leaders at Okinawa, Japan: Spruance, Nimitz, and Buckner, circa May 1945	Americans walking through the ruins of Naha, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945	FG-1D Corsair fighter in flight over Okinawa, mid-1945; seen in Mar 1953 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News