Chronology of World War II
Sunday, April 1st
Heading for the Beaches
Okinawa Invasion, April 1945. LVTs and other landing craft head for the Okinawa landing beaches on April 1, 1945. USS
LCI(G)-809
is partially visible at left, helping to cover the assault, with another LCI beyond her. Photographed from USS
West Virginia
(BB-48). (Official US Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives, 80-G-K-3848)