A demolition crew from the 6th Marine Division watch dynamite charges explode and destroy a Japanese cave. Okinawa, May 1945.
- Date
- 1927–1981
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,385 pixels
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"A demolition crew from the 6th Marine Division watch dynamite charges explode and destroy a Japanese cave. Okinawa, May 1945." (1927–1981). U.S. National Archives, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_demolition_crew_from_the_6th_Marine_Division_watch_dynamite_charges_explode_and_destroy_a_Japanese_cave._Okinawa..._-_NARA_-_532557.tifNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 5965.
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