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Two Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment during fighting at Wana Ridge during the Battle of Okinawa, May 1945. U.S. Army/Staff Sergent Walter F. Kleine.

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Robert “Bob” Klingman flew his F4U Corsair with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 in support of the Battle of Okinawa near the close of World War II. U.S. Marine Corps photo.

This Marine Pilot Literally Chopped Up His Enemy With His Propellor

Camped on "Sugar Loaf"-During one of the many rainy spells on Okinawa, the First Battalion, Fourth Marines command post was established on Sugar Loaf Hill, Okinawa. 26 May 1945. U.S. Marine Corps.

How Marines On Okinawa Survived the 'Screwed-Up Mess' At Sugar Loaf Hill

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I Was Hit By A Kamikaze Attack During World War II (And Survived)

Operation Iceberg: The Longest and Bloodiest Campaign of Pacific World War II

How did this U.S. Warship Survive Japanese Bombs and Kamikaze Attacks?

Two Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment during fighting at Wana Ridge during the Battle of Okinawa, May 1945. U.S. Army/Staff Sergent Walter F. Kleine.

This Pacific Battle Meant Japan's Days Were Numbered

Robert “Bob” Klingman flew his F4U Corsair with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 in support of the Battle of Okinawa near the close of World War II. U.S. Marine Corps photo.

This Marine Pilot Literally Chopped Up His Enemy With His Propellor

Camped on "Sugar Loaf"-During one of the many rainy spells on Okinawa, the First Battalion, Fourth Marines command post was established on Sugar Loaf Hill, Okinawa. 26 May 1945. U.S. Marine Corps.

How Marines On Okinawa Survived the 'Screwed-Up Mess' At Sugar Loaf Hill

By Royal Navy official photographer aboard HMS Victorious (R38) - This is photograph A 29717 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=473290

This Is How Horrifying It Was to Be Hit by a Kamikaze Attack

A F4U Corsair flies over Moody Air Force Base, Ga., during the Thunder Over South Georgia Air Show, Oct. 29, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Daniel Snider)

This American Pilot Rammed a Japanese Fighter To Death—And Lived To Tell the Tale

By United States Navy photograph, photographed from USS West Virginia (BB-48). - Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-K-3829 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12100102

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