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De 'Gearing' klasse torpedojager u.s.s. 'Sarsfield' DD837 van de Amerikaanse Marine met op de achtergrond het bij Okinawa op 11 mei 1945 door een kamikaze-aanval in brand geraakte 'Essex' klasse vliegkampschip u.s.s. 'Bunker Hill' CV17 Foto afkosti uit de Collection Roger Decamps B.N.R.A.Behoort tot een verzameling fotodrukken van oorlogshandelingen met marineschepen van de V.S.

WO II. Slag om Okinawa. Een silhouet van Amerikaanse corsairs vliegtuigen van het 'Hell's Belles' Marine Corps Fighter squadron tijdens de Japanse aanval op het vliegveld van Youton te Okinawa, Japan 23 april 1945. Het luchtafweergeschut zorgt voor een fraai effect. Tegenlichtopname.

' Okinawa Inferno. In final phase of bitter campaign for Okinawa, U.S. Marines put almost the entire Kuski-Take mountain on southern sector of the island to the torch in attempt at capture of Jap headquarters hidden in caves there. Capture of the headquarters marked the end of Jap resistance. In this photo, taken from a P-38 photo plane the Jap stronghold at Kuski-Take can be seen engulfed in flames ...

Wounded Okinawa civilians receive frist aid. Okinawa civilians, injured during the early phases of U.S. 10th Army landings on Okinawa, central Ryukyus (Loochoos) island march 31, 1945, receive first aid treatment from U.S. Army Medical Corpsmen. The one-third of the strategic island controlled by U.S. forces by March 9, 1945, assumed a semblance of peacetime order, as Okinawans harvested their crops ...

Flame-throwing tank in action on Okinawa. An American flame-throwing tank bursts into action against Japanese cave defenses which honeycomb the rocky ridges of Okinawa island. With the help of the rugged and difficult terrain, the Japanese have stubbornly contested possession of the strategic island since the Americans invaded it on March 31, 1945. By May 9, U.S. forces were within one mile of the ...

U.S. Navy carrier-based planes bomb Okinawa. Smoke billows high above Japanese installations on Okinawa, Japanese Ryukyus (Loochoos) island base 362 miles (579 km.) from Japan prior to the March 31, 1945, landings by U.S. Tenth Army troops. A heavy pre-invasion bombing and strafing by more than 1,500 U.S. naval aircraft, plus a naval bombardement of more than 5,000 tons of shells, on the Japanese defenses ...

U.S. landing craft hit the beach at Okinawa. U.S. landing craft loaded with heavily armed soldiers and Marines move toward the beach of Okinawa Island on March 31, 1945, at the start of the American invasion of the strategic Japanese outpost. Fourteen hundred ships and 1,500 carrier based planes supported the landing of the U.S. 10th Army on the island, which belongs to the Ryukyu (loochoo) group and ...

Wounded U.S. Marine evacuated from Okinawa. A wounded U.S. Marine, a casualty in the fierce fightinh which followed the American invasion March 31, 1945, of Okinawa, Ryukyu (Loochoo) island only 375 miles (600 kms.) from Japan, is placed aboard a rubber boat for transfer to a Navy patrol plane floating offshore. American casualties on Okinawa through May 29, including Army, navy, Marine Corps and Coast ...

' U.S. Medical Corpsmen Treat Japanese Children On Okinawa Island. U.S. medical corpsmen care for Japanese children injured during fighting on March 31, 1945, when U.S. forces invaded Okinawa Island, in the Ryukyu (Loochee) group, 375 miles (600 km) south of Japan. The children were brought to the first aid station set up under a tent to have their wounds treated and bandaged. Okinawa is one of the ...

De Amerikaanse soldaat John F. Cassinelli met vier door het oorlogsgeweld getroffen inwoners van Okinawa. Op Okinawa vond de laatste veldslag tussen Japan en de geallieerden plaats. Het werd een van de bloedigste gevechten uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Zeventigduizend Japanse militairen, samengebracht op dit Japanse eiland, waren bereid te strijden tot de dood erop volgde. De Japanse legerleiding vond ...