American servicemen gather in solemn formation for a memorial service at a military cemetery chapel on Okinawa, 1945. A chaplain, vested in surplice and cassock, leads the ceremony near a Quonset-hut chapel marked with a simple cross, while rows of temporary grave markers line the path — silent testimony to the cost of the Battle of Okinawa. Services such as this were held throughout the Pacific in the weeks surrounding Japan's surrender, honoring the fallen even as the war drew to its close. Project: 218478