The Snapshots in Time Collection
6th Marine Division Tanks and Infantry Entering Naha City, Okinawa, 1945
Marines of the 6th Marine Division advance through the ruins of Naha, Okinawa's capital city, alongside an M4 Sherman tank reinforced with sandbags and camouflage. Naha was reduced to rubble during the bitter fighting of the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945, one of the costliest engagements of the Pacific War. Project: 218500