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Photograph. Distant view of U.S. Marines sealing off Japanese caves using tanks. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/3/45--...

Photograph. Japanese fragmentation grenade, hidden in a head of cabbage. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/18/45--Deadly food...

Long shot of beach where soldiers are gathering and in background landing craft and ships can be seen. "File Number:...

Photograph. A grave on the side of a road covered in rough concrete and a large stone; the stone has two plaques; one...

Photograph. American LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) anchored off the coast; American servicemen are on the beach in the...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer arrived at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] on the night of 26 April 1945. He was...

Not far from Naha [Annotator's Note: Naha, Okinawa, Japan], Melvin C. Whitman got into a 20 plus hour artillery duel....

Alvin Barnes rode out a typhoon off Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. The ship [Annotator's Note: USS Purdy (...

William Lutz knew the enemy was in front of them. [Annotator’s Note: He is referring to the Japanese on Guam]. He did...

After the attack, Robert Powers continued moving south towards the battalion CP [Annotator's Note: command post]. They...

James Roy Colquitt unloaded troops on the beach as the tide went out stranding his ship [Annotator’s Note: Colquitt was...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines aboard the USS Butte (APA-68)]...

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