Okinawa Campaign Photographs | World War II Database

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FG-1D Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-323 flying over Okinawa, Japan, 1945	View of a devastated area on Okinawa, Japan, 1945

Japanese officers Rear Admiral Minoru Ota, Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, Lieutenant General Isamu Cho, Colonel Hitoshi Kanayama, Colonel Kiuji Hongo, and Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, in numbered order, Okinawa, Japan, early Feb 1945	Aerial photograph taken during bombing of a Japanese forward submarine base on Okinawa, Japan, Mar 1945

Ships making smoke screen off Iwo Jima per original caption, but appearance of battleship Colorado or Maryland in a photo of this set indicate it might have been Okinawa; circa 1945, photo 1 of 2	Ships making smoke screen off Iwo Jima per original caption, but appearance of battleship Colorado or Maryland in a photo of this set indicate it might have been Okinawa; circa 1945, photo 2 of 2

Vice Admiral Richmond Turner aboard USS Eldorado off Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Mar 1945	Navy Ensign Jane Kendeigh was the first flight nurse to arrive on Iwo Jima, 6 Mar, 1945. She would also serve on Okinawa.

Eastern Aircraft FM2 Wildcats of Composite Squadron VC-93 on the flight deck of escort carrier USS Petrof Bay off Okinawa, 25 Mar 1945.	Men of the US 77th Division landing from LVTs onto Zanami Island of the Kerama Islands near Okinawa, Japan, 27 Mar 1945

A TBM Avenger trailing smoke returning to the carrier USS Essex after being damaged by Japanese anti-aircraft fire during a strike on Minami Daito Jima in the Okinawa Operation, 28 Mar 1945.	Battleship Colorado bombarding Okinawa, Japan, 29 Mar 1945; cropped photo

A group of US Navy flight nurses walking away from a Douglas R5D Skymaster aircraft, Guam, Marianas, Apr 1945	Aerial view of Tokashiki Island, Okinawa, Japan, 1945

Australian Destroyer HMAS Nizam alongside carrier USS Shangri-La for refueling, April 1945. Note Corsairs of Air Group 85 spotted on the flight deck.	British aircraft carriers Victorious, Formidable, Unicorn, Indefatigable, and Indomitable, comprising the carrier component of Task Force 57, at anchor in Leyte Gulf, Philippines, Apr 1945.

Destroyer USS Kimberly in Measure 32/6D paint scheme seen from an LST south of Okinawa, Japan, 29-31 Mar 1945.	Ernie Pyle aboard a US Navy warship off Okinawa, Japan, 1945

FM-2 Wildcat fighter of US Navy Composite Squadron 93 flying over Petrof Bay off Okinawa, Japan, March-May 1945	LCVP Higgins Boat from Amphibious Transport Ship USS Darke transferring US Army reinforcements at Okinawa, Japan, mid-April 1945