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Caption | Admiral Raymond Spruance, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Lieutenant Simon Buckner at Okinawa, Japan, circa May 1945 ww2dbase | ||||||||||||||
WW2-Era Location Name | Okinawa, Japan | ||||||||||||||
Date | May 1945 | ||||||||||||||
Photographer | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Army via Wikimedia Commons | ||||||||||||||
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