The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: OKINAWA PHOT INFO
Printed pages from the unit history "Lucky Sweetbrier" carry the war diary of USS LST-808 off Ie Shima and Okinawa in the spring of 1945, recording ammunition expenditures and the mounting kamikaze threat. Firsthand entries describe an attack repelled on 6 May and another on 11 May, foreshadowing the assaults that would destroy the ship later that month.
Printed Page: War Diary Excerpt of USS LST-808 Off Ie Shima, April-May 1945
