A U.S. Marine Military Policeman lights a cigarette for an elderly Okinawan civilian during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Official Marine Corps photographs like this one, captioned 'Natives were friendly and surprised at our kindness,' were distributed to document American efforts to reassure and provide humanitarian treatment to the Okinawan civilian population caught amid the fighting, one of the war's bloodiest Pacific campaigns. Project: 218500