With their M1 155mm howitzer behind them, Private First Class Troy Dixon, Leadhill, Arkansas, uses…

 Pilots being briefed on board the USS Essex, night before the raid on Okinawa, January 1945. Photo…

 USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes in 30 seconds off Kyushu. On the morning of 11 May 1945, whil…

USS Bunker Hill burning after Japanese kamikaze attacks near Okinawa, May 11, 1945.

Marines fire at Japanese positions in Southern Okinawa begins the early morning hours of May 11, 194…

Silhouetted against the entrance to one of the caves in the Okinawa hills, a Marine rifleman resorts…

Transfer of wounded men from USS Bunker Hill to USS Wilkes Barre, who were injured during fire aboar…

With the captured capital of Naha as a background, Marine Maj. Gen. Lemuel Shepherd, commanding gene…

A Marine dashes through Japanese machine gun fire while crossing a draw called "Death Valley" by the…

Marines pass through a small village where Japanese soldiers lay dead. Okinawa, April 1945. Norris G…

Corsair fighter plane fires rocket projectiles on a run against a Japanese stronghold on Okinawa. In…

Japanese night raiders are greeted with anti-aircraft fire by the Marine defenders at Yontan airfiel…

A demolition crew from the 6th Marine Division watch dynamite charges explode and destroy a Japanese…

View of #4 90mm AAA gun emplacement with crew in pit. "D" Battery, 98th AAA Gun Bn., 137th AAA Gp. O…

On the flank of a battle-wrecked alligator tank the Okinawa sun casts the shadows of 6th Division Ma…

Marines transport 500lbs bombs to aircraft at advanced Pacific base. Ca. 1944.

A tank sunk in 5 feet of water waits for towing equipment. The Tank Commander gives vent to his feel…

Tank-borne infantry moving up to take the town of Ghuta before the Japanese can occupy it. The men a…

Five-inch rockets being loaded under the wing of an F4U of MAG-33 just before take-off. The safety p…

U.S. Marine receives help from his wounds from the "Battle of Okinawa" on board U.S.S. Soiace enrout…

Pvt. W. D. Fuhlrodt is removed from the tank which carried him from the front lines. Japanese artill…

Gunners packing in bags of powder which will fire the huge shell already in the 16" Barbette gun, on…

 Tenth Army commander General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. called the tactics used on Okinawa "corkscr…

 From left to right: LCT-1415, LCT-1179, LCT-1265, LCT-1049 are landing supplies on Yellow Beach ne…