Photos Taken in Okinawa | World War II Database

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Anti-aircraft tracers in the night sky above Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 28 Apr 1945; note US Marine Corps Corsair fighters in foreground	Spectacular photo showing the moment a VT Proximity Fuze detonated a 5-inch shell nearly in the face of an attacking pilot, 29 Apr 1945, Kerama Retto near Okinawa, Japan. The ship is seaplane tender USS St. George.

2nd Lieutenant Donald Rusling, Captain Donald Garrett, 2nd Lieutenant Lester Bartils, and 2nd Lieutenant Glenn Hunter at a bomb shelter, Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945	Admiral Raymond Spruance, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Lieutenant Simon Buckner at Okinawa, Japan, circa May 1945

Aerial photo of the town of Ie on Ie Jima, Japan, circa 1945	Aerial view of Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945

American flamethrower tank attacking a Japanese-held cave, Okinawa, Japan, circa Apr-Jun 1945	Americans walking through the ruins of Naha, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945

F4U-1D Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-312 lined up at Kadena Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945.	Man of US 1st Marine Division comforting a fellow Marine who had just witnessed the death of a friend, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945

Men and M4 Sherman tank of the 382nd Infantry Regiment, US 96th Division on a road leading into Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, circa Apr-Jun 1945	Men of the US 1st Marine Division fording a muddy jungle stream at Okinawa, Japan, circa Apr-Jun 1945

MXY7 Ohka Model 11 aircraft I-13, captured by Americans at Yontan airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945, photo 1 of 2	MXY7 Ohka Model 11 aircraft I-13, captured by Americans at Yontan airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945, photo 2 of 2

PFC Elroy Karl, PFC Joe Levy, Sgt Herbert Curtis, and Cpl Leland Wheeler working on a Hellcat fighter of US Marine Air Group 31, Yontan Airfield, Okinanwa, Japan, May 1945	Public relations personnel of US Marine Airfield Group 31 Sgt Claude Canup, Sgt James Driscoll, and TSgt Charles Corkran, Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, 1945

US Marine Air Group 31 pilot 1st Lieutenant Del Carlton sleeping after a night flight, Okinawa, Japan, 1945	US Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton, near Shuri, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945

US Marine F4U Corsair fighter dropping a fire bomb on a Japanese position in northern Okinawa, Japan, circa Apr-Jun 1945	US Marine observing a Japanese position as a flame thrower attacked it, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945