Photos Taken in Okinawa | World War II Database

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Wounded US Marines being loaded onto an aircraft for evacuation, Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945; note female USN nurse Ensign Jane Kendeigh	US Marine Private Bruce Rutherford cleaning his Thompson submachine gun while playing with puppies Nanci, Shoto, Sake, Zero, Banzai, and Okinawa on Okinawa, Japan, 1 Jun 1945

US Marine Corps 8th Regimental Combat Team landing on Iheya, Okinawa, Japan, 3 Jun 1945	A US Marine observing ruined buildings in Naha, Okinawa, Japan, 13 Jun 1945

M4 Sherman tanks of US 769th Tank Battalion moving toward Hill 89 on Okinawa, Japan, mid-Jun 1945	Browning M1917A1 machine gun crew of US 96th Division on the top of Mount Yaese, southern Okinawa, Japan, 18 Jun 1945; note yellow cloth front lines marker on right

Raising the US flag on Okinawa, Japan, 22 Jun 1945	US Marines and US Army soldiers celebrating the capture of Hill 89, Okinawa, Japan, 27 Jun 1945; the hill was captured by US Army 7th Inf Div on 21 Jun

F4U-1D Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-422 at Ie Shima Airfield, Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, 1945. Note the nose art on both the plane and the belly tank.	Ground crewmen arming an FG-1D Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron 312, the “Checkerboarders,” at Kadena airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr-Aug 1945

US Marine code talker Private Leslie Hemstreet at a shrine in Okinawa, Japan, 1945	US Marine code talker Samnuel Sandoval of III Amphibious Corps Signal Battalion underneath a Torii gate on Okinawa, Japan, 1945

Remains of General Mitsuru Ushijima and Lieutenant General Isamu Cho, Okinawa, Japan, 5 Jul 1945	Aerial view of the area around Kakazu Ridge (US Army nickname: Tombstone Ridge), Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, 10 Jul 1945; the camera was pointing roughly in a northern direction

B-25J Mitchell bombers of the 41st Bomb Group armed with Mark XIII torpedoes prepare for take-off from Yonton Airfield, Okinawa bound for an attack on Japanese shipping at Sasebo, Japan, 28 Jul 1945.	Kakazu Gorge, Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, mid- or late-1945

Town of Ie viewed from the top of Mount Gusuku, with Red 3 and Red 4 beaches beyond, Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, 1945	US Marine Corporal John Dulin using a captured Japanese sword to cut a cake baked for victory celebration, Okinawa, Japan, Aug 1945

US Marines celebrating, Okinawa, Japan, Aug 1945	Aboard two Mitsubishi G4M ‘Betty’ bombers in surrender markings, a Japanese delegation stopped at Ie Jima, Ryukyu Islands en route Manila, Philippines for a surrender briefing, 19 Aug 1945. Photo 01 of 12.