Two First Division Marines walk along a rubble strewn road toward the ruins of the Japanese Naval Academy on Okinawa on 22 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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601.Photograph 'CINCPAC 08084 22 April 1945 Naval Academy on Okinawa Two First Division Marines walk along a rubble strewn road toward the ruins of the Japanese Naval Academy on Okinawa. The building was wrecked during the pre-invasion bombardment.' 22 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
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War damage--Okinawa
Soldiers--American--Okinawa