#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

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"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

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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

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"A U.S. Marine views dead Japanese soldiers that were blasted out of a pillbox on Iwo Jima, on March 3, 1945."

(AP)

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American soldiers atop Mt Suribachi, Iwo Jima. 1945

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

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F4Us patrol over Okinawa, summer 1945

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Battle of Okinawa, 1 April – 22 June 1945 (2 months and 3 weeks)

50,000 American casualties, 12,500 dead

110,000 Japanese casualties, 91,136 dead.

40-100,000 civilians dead.

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USMC F4Us on patrol over Okinawa, 1945