#Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign

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M18 Hellcat attacking Japanese fortified positions at Shuri on Okinawa in support of the 306th Infantry Regiment, 1945

[lonestarbattleship]

"80 years ago today, USS TEXAS (BB-35) delivered some payback for a friend at Iwo Jima. The previous day, the heavy cruiser USS PENSACOLA (CA-24) had been hit six times by a shore battery, killing 17, including her executive officer. TEXAS received orders on February 18th to take station near those guns and destroy them. She left a small gift of 195 fourteen-inch shells, silencing the shore battery.

Picture: A view of Iwo Jima and Mount Suribachi from TEXAS during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Photograph from the collection of Thomas Clark."

Posted on the Battleship Texas Foundation Facebook page: link

[carbone14]

Les artilleurs de marine pilonnent les positions japonaises avec un obusier M1 de 155 mm – Bataille d'Iwo Jima – Campagne des archipels Ogasawara et Ryūkyū – Guerre du Pacifique – 1945

[georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov]

“U.S. invasion forces establish a beachhead on Okinawa island, about 350 miles from the Japanese mainland, on April 13. 1945. Pouring out war supplies and military equipment, the landing crafts fill the sea to the horizon, in the distance, battleships of the U.S. fleet.”

(AP)

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American soldiers atop Mt Suribachi, Iwo Jima. 1945

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RN HMS Formidable ablaze after a kamikaze strike on 4 May 1945, at 11:26. By 17:00, Formidable was back in action, fielding aircraft and making steam.

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Blooded US Marines on Iwo Jima, 1945

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In a crouching run, USMC Pfc. Paul E. Ison charges across "Death Valley" on Okinawa, while dodging heavy Japanese machine-gun fire, 10 May 1945.

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Armored amphibious tractors of a Marine battalion form into line as the first waves of the Leatherneck invaders head for the beaches of Okinawa. April 1, 1945.

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B6N torpedo bomber flying through US Navy anti-aircraft fire near Iwo Jima during pre-invasion operations, 1944

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Flaming Japanese aircraft, shot down by anti-aircraft gunners of the US aircraft carrier USS Hornet off the coast of Okinawa, 18 March 1945

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US Marines of 7th Regiment during the assault on Okinawa, 1945.

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US Marines test out a captured Type 95 Ha-Go light tank on Iwo Jima, March 1945

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USS Missouri (BB-63) about to be hit by a Japanese A6M "Zero" kamikaze, while operating off Okinawa on 11 April 1945

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A M4 flame-tank blasts a Japanese position on Okinawa, 1945

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US Marine fires a M1917 Browning water-cooled machine-gun in support of an attack on Iwo Jima, Feb 1945.