LSM's (R) sending rockets at the shores of Pokishi Shima, near Okinawa, 5 days before invasion.
- Date
- c. 1945
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- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,280 pixels
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