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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 ...

Tweede Wereldoorlog. Enorme hoeveelheden vaten met benzine worden gestapeld op het strand van Okinawa na de invasie. Aantal schepen voeren materieel aan, waaronder voertuigen. Japan, Okinawa, 1945

U.S. MARINE OBSERVATION PLANE FLIES OVER NAHA, CAPITAL OF OKINAWA. A U.S. Marine observation plane flies low over Naha, capital of Okinawa. The tiny ship drew small arms and anti-aircraft fire as it flew over the city, which at that time was under Japanese control. Note the sunken shipping in the harbor in the background. By June 5, 1945, the U.S. Sixth Marine Division crossed Naha Harbor and landed ...

' Jap Baka Boms. American Marines examine an abandoned Japanese `Baka` bomb found on Yontan airfield, Okinawa. Designed similiar to the German jet propelled Buzz Bomb - this Japanese version is fitted with wings, fins and tail assemble and is flown by a `one way suicide pilot`. This rocket propelled bomb is launched from an aircraft and guided to its objective. The Baka bomb is thrown into a dive by ...

U.S. Bomb explodes near ship at Japanese midget submarine base, okinawa. A bomb from a U.S. carrier plane churns up the water near a Japanese ship at a midget submarine and torpedo boat base in a sholtered cave on Okinawa during pre-invasion bombing of the island in the Ryukyu group. U.S. Navy planes pounded Okinawa for nine consecutive days before American forces landed on March 31,1945. A day later ...

U.S. Marines set off dynamite change in Okinawa cave. Debris showers high into the air as a U.S. Marine demolition crew sets off a dynamite blast to eliminate a Japanese strongpoint in a cave on Okinawa, main Ryukyu (Loochoo) island 375 miles (600 kms.) from Japan. A network of caves and pillboxes was found in the southern sector of Okinawa, where the enemy was trying desperately to stem the U.S. drive ...

U.S. Marines guard Japanese prisoners on Okinawa. The more than 300 Japanese soldiers who surrendered to the U.S. Sixth Marine Division during the final 24-hours of organized resistance on Okinawa, main Ryukyu (Loochoo) island wrested from the Japanese June 20, 1945, crowd a prisoner of war stockade on the strategic island. The toll of Japanese prisoners taken on the island through June 27, was 9,948, ...