Home 382/96-ID Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru Line (Okinawa) May 1945 U.S. Coast Guard correspondent Victor Hayden lighting a cigarette for an Okinawan peasant woman

U.S. Coast Guard correspondent Victor Hayden lighting a cigarette for an Okinawan peasant woman

A 37mm anti-tank gun prepares to fire point-blank at a Japanese pillbox on Conical Hill on Okinawa. The 383rd Infantry Regiment of the Army’s 96th Infantry Division found this small weapon effective.
Grim-faced American soldiers fight listen to the radio broadcast of the surrender of Germany and the end of the war in Europe
European Center of Military History (EUCMH)