Rockets from an LSM screaming toward the beach at Okinawa Island on 4 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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605.Photograph 'CINCPAC-05467 4 April 1945 Rockets soften Okinawa Beach-Rockets screaming toward the beach at Okinawa Island spread a pattern of death and destruction across landing areas preliminary to the landings of American invasion forces. The rocket ship is an LCI [LSM(R)], a unit of the Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, USN.' 4 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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Okinawa
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Landing craft--American--Okinawa
Missiles--American--Okinawa
Arms & armament--American--Okinawa
Bombardment--Okinawa