Chevrolet Impala at the US Auto Trading & Loan Company pawn shop for cars in Okinawa, Japan, during the US occupation of the Ryukyu Islands, circa...
Aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill ablaze after being hit by two kamikaze suicide planes. Photographed from USS Bataan on the morning of May 11 while...
American troops from the 3rd Battalion of the 305th Regimental Combat Team, 77th Infantry Division, XXIV Corps raise the stars and stripes flag of...
The gun crews on a Quad 40mm Bofors gun mount watch the skies from the Colorado-class battleship USS West Virginia during the invasion of Okinawa,...
And Toshiba advertisements in Okinawa, Japan, during the US occupation of the Ryukyu Islands, circa 1968.
View of the USS battleship Tennessee as it provides cover from American invasion troops race ashore at Okinawa in amphibious tanks, 1945.
Invasion forces establish a beachhead on Okinawa island, about 350 miles from the Japanese mainland. 13th April 1945. Pouring out war supplies and...
Aged Okinawan civilian refugees wait in the shelter of a refugee centre after being evacuated from their homes to escape the fighting between...
This picture taken on August 23, 2022 shows a general view of the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Kakazutakadai Park in Ginowan, Okinawa...
A United States Navy LSM-188-class Landing Ship Medium fires a barrage of rockets in salvos on to the shores of Tokishi Shima in a prelanding...
This picture taken on August 23, 2022 shows MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in flight after taking off from US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, as...
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...
This picture taken on August 24, 2022 shows anti-base activist Suzuyo Takazato taking part in a protest outside Henoko US base in Nago, Okinawa...
Rockets from an American LSM stream towards Okinawa Island of the Ryukyu archipelago just before the invasion by US 10th Army forces.
This picture taken on August 24, 2022 shows anti-base activist Suzuyo Takazato walking in front of a protest outside Henoko US base in Nago, Okinawa...
This picture taken on August 24, 2022 shows anti-base protesters outside Henoko US base in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture. - For decades, residents of...
This picture taken on August 23, 2022 shows a person looking out at the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Kakazutakadai Park in Ginowan,...
Members of 306 Infantry 1st Battalion 77th Division in the hills on Geruma Shima in the Keramas Islands, stalking snipers after the US invasion....
Marines move into Naha, capital city of Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands in the face of stiff Japanese resistance. The men are on a hill overlooking the city,...
This picture taken on August 23, 2022 shows an MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in flight after taking off from US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma,...
Army vehicles at the 2nd Logistical Command in Okinawa, Japan, during the US occupation of the Ryukyu Islands, circa 1968. Vehicles and other...
An American LSM\R launches rockets at Okinawa before the U.S 10th Army invaded the stategic island on March 31, 1945. U.S forces on the first day...
Overhead view of the gaping hole in the deck of the USS 'Bunker Hill' after it was dive-bombed by two Japanese Kamikaze planes off the shores of...
This picture taken on August 24, 2022 shows anti-base activist Suzuyo Takazato posing outside Henoko US base in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture. - For...
Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bombers of the US Air Force 18th Wing's 12th Fighter-Bomber Squadron at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, during...
War correspondent Ernie Pyle visits with Marines of the Third Amphibious Forces aboard a transport of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on the way to the...
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...
Nuclear-powered submarine USS Seadragon is seen at Naha Port on November 20, 1964 in Naha, Okinawa under U.S. Occupation, Japan.
Keep Out' sign in English and Japanese at the 2nd Logistical Command in Okinawa, Japan, during the US occupation of the Ryukyu Islands, circa 1968....
Japanese protesters stage an anti-US base rally in Ginowan, Okinawa 15 July 2000, where the United States has about 25,000 troops. More than 5,000...
S bombard the shores of Tokashiki Shima with rockets during the US Navy's progression towards Okinawa, March 1945. The island is part of the Kerama...
View of pair of boys as they ride on a horse-drawn cart as they return to their village, Iheya Shima, after the US military invasion, Okinawa, Japan,...
The last photograph of American Army Lieutenant general Simon Bolivar Buckner commander of the Tenth Army and the overall invasion of Okinawa, June...
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...
Old Glory Flies in Ryukyus. Geruma Shima-- U.S. Troops of the 10th Army's 77th Division, raise the stars and stripes for the first time in the...
Ernie Pyle, 1900-1945, journalist and correspondent, who reported from Latin America and accompanied the Allied forces in World War II during...
Natives of Kiniawa are carried in a marine amphibious invasion craft to a refugee camp away from the gunfire. Battle of Okinawa, May 1945.
Yamato , named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was the lead ship of the Yamato class of battleships that served with the Imperial...
Nancy Bingeman and her husband Harold Bingeman, both of Ephrata, look at the memorial. Harold served in the Army in WWII and was part of the invasion...
Anti-US military base activist and native Okinawan Jinshiro Motoyama sits during the third day of his hunger strike outside the Ministry of Land,...
Anti-US military base activist and native Okinawan Jinshiro Motoyama sits during the third day of his hunger strike outside the Ministry of Land,...
Anti-US military base activist and native Okinawan Jinshiro Motoyama sits during the third day of his hunger strike outside the Ministry of Land,...
Anti-US military base activist and native Okinawan Jinshiro Motoyama sits during the third day of his hunger strike outside the Ministry of Land,...
Children march in the Okinawa Prefecture village of Kunigami on April 28 the 70th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty that restored Japan's...
Military Osprey aircraft flies over the Okinawa Prefecture village of Kunigami on April 28 the 70th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty...
Photo shows a bonfire in the Okinawa Prefecture village of Kunigami on April 28 the 70th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty that restored...
Photo shows a bonfire in the Okinawa Prefecture village of Kunigami on April 28 the 70th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty that restored...
Children make a bonfire in the Okinawa Prefecture village of Kunigami on April 28 the 70th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty that...
Children march in the Okinawa Prefecture village of Kunigami on April 28 the 70th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty that restored Japan's...
Children make a bonfire in the Okinawa Prefecture village of Kunigami on April 28 the 70th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty that...
People stage a rally in front of the Okinawa prefectural government headquarters in Naha on April 28 the 70th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace...
Newly elected Chief Executive of the Ryukyu Islands Chobyo Yara shakes hands with High Commissioner of the United States Civil Administration of the...
Local residents fight with U.S. Marines at a shooting exercise site where local people worship as a sacred mountain on December 31, 1970 in Kunigami,...
Local residents square off with U.S. Marines at a shooting exercise site where local people worship as a sacred mountain on December 31, 1970 in...
Local residents gather at the summit of a mountain in the restricted area which U.S. Marines was supposed to target at a shooting exercise on...
Local students pray for a victim who was ploughed by a car driven by a drunken U.S. Marine to death on September 22, 1970 in Itoman, Okinawa under...