Okinawa April 1 - July 2, 1945

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Kamikaze suicide planes attack the US Fleet off Okinawa, April 1945. 56K or T1

 

USS Franklin crewmembers fight fires and bury the dead after Kamikaze hits. May 1945. 56K or T1

Mud slows the advance on the Shuri Castle defense line. June 1945. 56K or T1

 

Japanese soldiers and civilians begin surrendering after the Shuri Castle defense line and Okinawa's capital, Naha, were broken. 56K or T1

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Battle of Okinawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

General Simon Buckner, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mitsuru Ushijima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Ghosts of Okinawa

USS BUSH-RECOLLECTIONS
Crew recollections page of the USS BUSH (DD529). Site provides an example of life aboard a World War II Fletcher class destroyer. Photos, deck logs, action reports, glossary, poetry and recollections are accessible. Good historical reference material.

warofourfathers.com

Pacific Campaign, Okinawa 1945

Battle of Okinawa

Japan's Battle of Okinawa
Combined Arms Research Library.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 21 | 1945: US troops take Okinawa
The Japanese island of Okinawa falls to the Americans after a long and bloody battle.

Military History Online- Battle of Okinawa
An in-depth study of the Battle of Okinawa

BBC - WW2 People's War - Dad's Letter from Okinawa 1945
My dad, Charles Hladky, was on the AOG-36 Ontonagon which was a Mattawee Class Gasoline Tanker. This is an ...

1945: Okinawa Is Taken : IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO
OKINAWA - Troops of the 10th Army, exploiting their easy landing on the west coast beaches of this island assured themselves of one of the most stunning victories of the war yesterday [April 2] by seizing the interior heights essential to the Japanese as

Typhoon "Louise" The 9 October 1945 Storm at Okinawa

HyperWar: Okinawa, The Final Battle: Contents
World War II: Pacific Theater of Operations: The Central Pacific drive culminates in the conqest of the Ryukyus (Okinawa) in the spring of 1945.

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