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American infantrymen walk across a field toward hills and a distant plume of smoke. Okinawa (probably), 1945.

Landing crafts LCT-1415, LCT-1179 (probably), LCT-1265, and LCT-1049 unload supplies on Yellow Beach while USS LSM-220...

View from the USS Rutland to the USS Bladen after the attack on Okinawa in April 1945; probably in the Ryukyu Islands...

[Annotator's Note: Walter Jacobs served in the Army as a squad leader in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 306th Infantry...

Fred Wesighan and his unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division]...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BAR man, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion,...

Allen Lamm was concerned for his safety on Okinawa. He did not realize that the splatters in the water were coming from...

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Following the battle of Okinawa, Richard Witaker learned more about Japanese strategies and preparations for the Marine...

Harvey Mittleman's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the heavy combat during the first few days on Okinawa [...

Introduced to Okinawa through a rubberized topographical map, Richard Jaccarino could see where they would be landing,...

William J. Twigger saw very little fighting at Sugar Loaf [Annotator's Note: The Battle of Sugar Loaf Hill, 12 May to...

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