Title
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Artist
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Medium & Support
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Creation Date
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A tremendous geyser arises beside a Japanese cargo ship as U.S. Navy rockets explode in near hits
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Clarke, A. J.
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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October 1945
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Under Marine guard, 28 Japanese doctors and medical men who are prisoners of the Yanks on Guam leave a stockade to go to Okinawa to care for civilian internees
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United States Navy Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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June 17, 1945
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Lt. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. places a wreath on the grave of Lt. General Simon B. Buckner, Jr. during his visit to the 7th Division cemetery on Okinawa
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Unknown Photographer
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Sound photograph on paper
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July 8, 1945
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Soldiers move through the water and emerge without a sound in this American Red Cross water safety instructors’ course on Okinawa
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Attributed to Hamblin, Dora Jane
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1945
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Destroyers Evans and Hadley bag 38 planes in action-packed hour-and-45 minute Battle of Okinawa
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United States Navy Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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May 11, 1945
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A Navy gun crew blasts at Japanaese aircraft while units of the 77th Infantry Division put into Akashima, in the Kerma Rhetto in the Ryukyus
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United States Army Signal Corps Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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April 2, 1945
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Rockets fly from an LSM toward the beach in preparation for the American invasion, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands
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United States Navy Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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April 1, 1945
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Japanese prisoners of war entering a P.O.W. camp on Okinawa are stripped to avoid concealing any weapons
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage sound photograph on paper
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July 1, 1945
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221 Japanese prisoners of war are sprawled on the deck of an LCT in Guam. The Coast Guard transport will transfer them to Pearl Harbor.
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United States Coast Guard Photographer
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Vintage sound photograph on paper
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June 28, 1945
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An aged Japanese man and a young Japanese mother with her infant were among thousands of civilians rounded up in the invasion of Okinawa by American troops
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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April 11, 1945
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Helped by an elderly civilian, an injured Okinawan boy moves back from the front lines to a collecting point behind the Seventh Division’s battle lines
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United States Army Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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July 11, 1945
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While General Joseph Stillwell looks on, Rear Admiral Tadao Kato signs papers surrendering Amami Island, marking capitulation of the Ryukyu chain, Okinawa
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United States Navy Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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September 8, 1945
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Japanese surrendered to American forces on Okinawa after hearing a broadcast by one of their countrymen, who is a prisoner in American hands
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United States Marine Corps Photographer
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Vintage sound photograph on paper
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July 6, 1945
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Two soldiers of the Eleventh Airborne Division watch the American flag waving in the breeze at Atsugi Airstrip near Tokyo, soon after their arrival from Okinawa
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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August 1945
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