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127-GW-518-122300: Okinawa Campaign, April-June 1945

127-GW-518-122300: Okinawa Campaign, April-June 1945. Fourth Marines, “L” Company Rifle Squad, lie low and break up while making way near river bank at Naha, Okinawa, 24-26 May 1945. At time photograph was taken Japanese were putting everything they had at the Marines. Note, large explosions in Naha made by our planes and heavy artillery. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/6/25).
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Caption: Okinawa Campaign, April-June 1945. Fourth Marines, “L” Company Rifle Squad, lie low and break up while making way near river bank at Naha, Okinawa, 24-26 May 1945. At time photograph was taken Japanese were putting everything they had at the Marines. Note, large explosions in Naha made by our planes and heavy artillery. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/6/25).
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