The Snapshots in Time Collection

Terraced Rice Paddies and Hillside, Okinawa (WWII era)

Terraced Rice Paddies and Hillside, Okinawa (WWII era)

A quiet rural landscape on Okinawa, captured by an American serviceman during or shortly after the 1945 battle for the island. Terraced fields and pine-forested hills reflect the traditional agricultural landscape of the Ryukyu Islands, largely untouched in this frame by the intense fighting that had swept across much of Okinawa earlier that year. Project: 218616