Home Battle of Okinawa – (Report) – (April 1945) – 96th Infantry Division U.S. Marines battling for control of a ridge near Naha, Okinawa, May 1945

U.S. Marines battling for control of a ridge near Naha, Okinawa, May 1945

Lieutenant Colonel R.P. Ross, Jr., of Frederick, Md., plants the American flag on one of the remaining ramparts of ancient Shuri castle on Okinawa