Two US Soldiers Posing on Top of Sherman Tank on Okinawa

Gift in Memory of Earl A. Crawford
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Photograph. Two US Soldiers Posing on Top of Sherman Tank on Okinawa. Tank is named "Butcher." Inscription on back reads: "Oltoph(one of the fellows in my hut!) and me on an American tank shot all to hell its just sitting because the road on the Southern end of the island."

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1945
1946
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Photographs from the US Army service of Earl A. Crawford. Crawford served on Okinawa with Headquarters Company Army Ground Forces and was in the first wave of the assault of the island.