One First Division Marine comforts another after he witnessed the death of his buddy on Shuri, east of Naha, capital of Okinawa in April 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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602.Photograph 'CINCPAC 08106 Released: 16 May 1945 My Buddy One Marine comforts another when the latter broke down and cried after witnessing the death of his buddy on an Okinawa hillside. These men took part in the bitter fighting the First Marine Division waged up to Shuri, the Japanese stronghold two miles east of Naha, capital of Okinawa.' April 1945
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Shuri
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26.183
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127.717
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Okinawa
Grief
Death--Okinawa