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Smoke rises from US Navy shelling of Sesoko Island while in foreground a Marine stands watch atop a hill next to inscribed posts which mark the graves of Japanese soldiers.
Location:Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands
Date taken:April 1945
Photographer:J. R. Eyerman
Size:1280 x 1275 pixels (17.8 x 17.7 inches)

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