Chronology of World War II

Sunday, April 1st


Heading for the Beaches


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)
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