1st Division U.S. Marines engage in a firefight with Japanese defenses southeast of Machinato airfield during the battle for Okinawa; May 1945.


Marines shoot it out with Japanese

Marines fight their way over "Cemetery Ridge" in Okinawa. They are pinned down behind gravestones by enemy sniper fire.


Fighting and dying in a cemetery

American Marines are posing with artillery rounds from a captured Japanese 75-mm anti-aircraft gun (Type 88, model 1928) on one of the islands in the Pacific Ocean.