The Snapshots in Time Collection
Marines Provide Covering Fire on Ruined Church Suspected of Concealing Japanese Snipers, Battle of Okinawa, 1945
U.S. Marines provide covering fire during the Battle of Okinawa, 1945, as a patrol advances on enemy snipers reported hidden in a ruined church. The extensive damage to the structure reflects the intensity of the fighting during one of the final and costliest campaigns of the Pacific War. Project: 218500