Firefighters use hoses to tackle the flames and damage to the flight deck of HMS Formidable, a Royal Navy Illustrious-class aircraft carrier...
Marines of the 1st Division wait on the crest of a hill in southern Okinawa, as they watch phosphorous shells explode over Japanese soldiers dug into...
Okinawa, Japan: Eleven Okinawa civilians who were huddled in this hillside cave were rescued when a passing Marine patrol heard a baby crying. After...
Marine charges forward through Japanese machine gun fire on Okinawa. Marines and infantry of the U.S. 10th Army controlled three-quarters of Okinawa...
Marine from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines on Wana Ridge firing a Thompson submachine gun. Battle of Okinawa, May 1945.
Rear view Sherman flamethrower in action. M4A3R3 Zippo: Sherman tank during the Battle of Okinawa . GI crouched alongside, Japan.
An Okinawan civilian refugee wounded in the the fighting has his wounds tended to while laying on a stretcher by US Marine Corps medics from the III...
View of United States Coast Guard commander Jack Dempsey and his crewmates in a landing craft as they head for the beach, Okinawa, Japan, April 13,...
The powerful Japanese battleship Yamato is attacked from the air on April 7 during the battle of Okinawa. The ship was sunk after receiving hits from...
Marines on Okinawa pause behind the cover of small ridge for one final look ahead before jumping off on attack. The man crouching on left carries a...
An amphibious tractor battalion of a Marine regiment forms into a line as the Leathernecks start the dash for the shores of Okinawa, April 1, 1945....
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Okinawa: A bullet-scarred monolith serves as a shelter for men of the 7th Infantry Division, U. S. 10th Army, as they observe enemy action on the...
Japanese prisoners of war carrying their belongings on their heads as they wade through water to the waiting Landing Craft Vehicle, Kerama Islands,...
Okinawa civilians returning from hiding places in the hills following the invasion of the island by American soldiers.
Marines pass through a destroyed village where a Japanese soldier lies dead. Battle of Okinawa, May 1945.
Marine Lt. Col. R.P. Ross Jr. Places Flag on one of the remaining ramparts of Shuri Castle on Okinawa.Same flag rasied by the first marine div at...
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View of the coffin of American journalist and war correspondent Ernie Pyle being laid to rest with various GI's on the island of Iejima near Okinawa...
Civilian natives of Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands bathing and dressing after delousing during American occupation. Taken by USS Panamint, ca. April
With a steel helmet for a pillow, and the coral ground for a bed, a 6th Division Marine Private John Emmons and his dog take a well-earned rest in...
Marines stormed ashore at Agune Jima, 30 miles west of Okinawa on June 9, 1945. Lt. H.P. Barrand talks with three native women after the invasion....
Clergy member says prayers for fallen American soldiers during a battle on the island of Ie-shima. | Location: Ie-shima, Okinawa, Japan.
On a ridge north of the capital city Naha, Marines get ready for a campaign to take the town, Okinawa, Japan, May 16, 1945.
Marine Private First Class Patrick J. Carr, stationed in Okinawa, Japan at the end of World War II, smiles as he reads a letter from Stella Norek in...
On the small island of Ie Shima in the Ryukyu archipelago an American Army chaplain leads a service over the graves of fallen Americans who had died...
Severely malnourished girl from Okinawa is given a sponge bath in a refugee camp on the island, which is part of south-west Japan.
View of clouds of black smoke rising from the USS 'Bunker Hill' aircraft carrier after it was hit twice by Japanese Kamikaze planes during World War...
Major General Lemuel Sheperd commander of the 6th US Marine Division reading a map on the Pacific island of Okinawa.
Black smoke billows into the air from a kamikazi plane which hit the SS Bunker Hill during a Japanese air strike near Okinawa.
Simple medical care for refugees in Okinawa after their liberation from Japanese rule. Two of the women have tattoos on their hands.
Soldats abattant des avions japonais depuis le pont d'un navire de la marine américaine lors de la bataille d'Okinawa, le 15 juin 1945.
Japanese orphans whose parents were killed, or who were abandoned during the Battle of Okinawa, eating their meagre rations in Koza Orphanage....
Crowd of Japanese prisoners of war from the Imperial Japanese Army's Thirty-Second Army stand behind a barbed wire fence, inside a stockade camp...
Child prays at a monument at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on June 23 the 77th anniversary of the end of...
View of a trio of unidentified American soldiers, tankmen of the Sixth Marine Division, as they bath in a shell hole, Okinawa, Japan, June 1945.
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen after visitng the Memorial for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at the Okinawa Peace...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen after visitng the Memorial for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at the Okinawa Peace...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen after visitng the Memorial for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at the Okinawa Peace...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen after visitng the Memorial for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at the Okinawa Peace...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko bow at an altar at the Memorial for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at the Okinawa Peace...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen after visitng the Memorial for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at the Okinawa Peace...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen after praying for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at Okinawa Peace Memorial Park on...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen after praying for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at Okinawa Peace Memorial Park on...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen after praying for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at Okinawa Peace Memorial Park on...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen after praying for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at Okinawa Peace Memorial Park on...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen on arrival at the memorial to commemorate the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at Okinawa...
Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko are seen after praying for the victims of the Battle of Okinawa at Okinawa Peace Memorial Park on...