| Caption | Anti-aircraft tracers in the night sky above Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 28 Apr 1945; note US Marine Corps Corsair fighters in foreground ww2dbase | |||||||||||
| Photographer | Unknown | |||||||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives | |||||||||||
| Identification Code | 127-G-118775 | |||||||||||
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| Photos on Same Day | 28 Apr 1945 | |||||||||||
| Photos at Same Place | Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan | |||||||||||
| Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||||||
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| Licensing | Public Domain. According to the US National Archives, as of 21 Jul 2010: Please contact us regarding any inaccuracies with the above information. Thank you. |
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Visitor Submitted Comments
2. Jack Hoying says:
28 Apr 2015 05:16:48 PM
I've admired this photo for 50 years. It's in my father's copy of the 6th Marine Division's History book. Dad is 93 years old now and I was just looking through the book with him the other night.
His name is Vernon Hoying, 6th Marine Division, 22nd Marines, Company C.
28 Apr 2015 05:16:48 PM
I've admired this photo for 50 years. It's in my father's copy of the 6th Marine Division's History book. Dad is 93 years old now and I was just looking through the book with him the other night.
His name is Vernon Hoying, 6th Marine Division, 22nd Marines, Company C.
3. Rod Rhoads says:
28 Apr 2015 09:37:25 PM
My dad was at that airfield with his fighter squadron VMF-312 when that pic was made. My dad was SSgt Wm.Odum, ground crew. Semper Fi
28 Apr 2015 09:37:25 PM
My dad was at that airfield with his fighter squadron VMF-312 when that pic was made. My dad was SSgt Wm.Odum, ground crew. Semper Fi
4. Rod Rhoads says:
30 Apr 2015 09:22:16 AM
As I recall. there was a *** giretsu or suicide attack at Yontan where a *** Betty bomber crashlanded on the runway and troops armed with handgrenades and explosives rushed out of the plane and started destroying Marine fighter planes. That tracer in picture may have been that occasion
30 Apr 2015 09:22:16 AM
As I recall. there was a *** giretsu or suicide attack at Yontan where a *** Betty bomber crashlanded on the runway and troops armed with handgrenades and explosives rushed out of the plane and started destroying Marine fighter planes. That tracer in picture may have been that occasion
5. Rod Rhoads says:
30 Apr 2015 09:28:25 AM
Oh, Lord-made a mistake re vmf-312-they were based at the newly retaken Kadena Field- not Yontan as they were with MAG 33. The reason Yontan sticks inmy mindisthat suicide attack my dad told me about many times.
30 Apr 2015 09:28:25 AM
Oh, Lord-made a mistake re vmf-312-they were based at the newly retaken Kadena Field- not Yontan as they were with MAG 33. The reason Yontan sticks inmy mindisthat suicide attack my dad told me about many times.
6. Mike Lesko says:
11 Oct 2018 04:57:19 PM
My father took this picture ! I have the original.
11 Oct 2018 04:57:19 PM
My father took this picture ! I have the original.
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| Lat/Long | 26.3936, 127.7467 |
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GREAT PHOTO....