Marines File Past Their Okinawa Dead: following their dedication of a sixth marine division cemetery on July 4th, fellow marines file past the graves of their fallen comrades looking for familiar names. The cemetery is on a hill overlooking one of Okinawa's beaches.

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Marines File Past Their Okinawa Dead: following their dedication of a sixth marine division cemetery on July 4th, fellow marines file past the graves of their fallen comrades looking for familiar names. The cemetery is on a hill overlooking one of Okinawa's beaches.
Marines File Past Their Okinawa Dead: following their dedication of a sixth marine division cemetery on July 4th, fellow marines file past the graves of their fallen comrades looking for familiar names. The cemetery is on a hill overlooking one of Okinawa's beaches.
Datec. 1945
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 6 1/4 × 10 in. (15.9 × 25.4 cm) Sheet: 7 3/8 × 10 in. (18.8 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.96
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Markings Recto, bottom (typewritten): "(NY9-July 24) MARINES FILE PAST THEIR OKINAWA DEAD--Following their dedication of a sixth marine division cemetery on July 4th, fellow marines file past the graves of their fallen comrades looking for familiar names. The cemetery is on a hill overlooking one of Okinawa's beaches. Photo by Max Desfor, AP staff photographer with the wartime still picture pool (AP Wirephoto) 1945 (mws30700md-stf-pl)"
Verso, top right corner (purple ink stamp): "Jul 25, 1945"
Verso, top left corenr, black ink (typewritten): "U.S.Marines -- Okinawa, / WORLD WAR II -- CEMETERIES"
Published References Illustrated: Associated Press ID # 4507231357
Guarding Pohang Base: an American soldier keeps watch from a fortified ridge overlooking burning village in the Pohang area of the Korean front as he covers comrades (center, under gun) patrolling hillside. A full South Korean division has been moved to this northern front to help hold important Pohang airfield now out of operation due to Reds' advance in area.
Guarding Pohang Base: an American soldier keeps watch from a fortified ridge overlooking burning village in the Pohang area of the Korean front as he covers comrades (center, under gun) patrolling hillside. A full South Korean division has been moved to this northern front to help hold important Pohang airfield now out of operation due to Reds' advance in area.
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto with applied pigment
Object number: 2025.30.93
Radoub d'une Barque à Marée Basse (Repair of a Boat at Low Tide), plate 4 from the series "Six Marines"
Radoub d'une Barque à Marée Basse (Repair of a Boat at Low Tide), plate 4 from the series "Six Marines"
Eugène Isabey
Date: 1833
Medium: Lithograph on chine appliqué
Object number: 1993.3
Unhappy Red: a wounded North Korean soldier captured during U.S. Marines' drive in Naktong River area, uses tree limb to support himself as he heads towards rear under escort of Pvt, Marvin A. Penny (left), Houston, Texas, and Pfc. Donald E. West, Pond Creek, Oklahoma.
Unhappy Red: a wounded North Korean soldier captured during U.S. Marines' drive in Naktong River area, uses tree limb to support himself as he heads towards rear under escort of Pvt, Marvin A. Penny (left), Houston, Texas, and Pfc. Donald E. West, Pond Creek, Oklahoma.
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2025.30.94
United States marines watched while Vietnamese farmers, using the traditional hand operated equipment, worked in an irrigation ditch of a rice paddy in the Hieu Duc district. The farmers continue to pursue chores despite increasing pressure from the Viet Cong
United States marines watched while Vietnamese farmers, using the traditional hand operated equipment, worked in an irrigation ditch of a rice paddy in the Hieu Duc district. The farmers continue to pursue chores despite increasing pressure from the Viet Cong
Unknown artist
Date: April 1969
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.182
Two marines partly in shadow
Two marines partly in shadow
Burk Uzzle
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.260
© Abbas Attar / Magnum Photos.
After the deadly events of the last weekend in the Iranian capital, rebel groups continue their revolutionary actions --The attack on the American Embassy --Civilians are taken away --The Marines surrender --At the University, the guerrillas give courses in weapon handling --state of shah sacked. Presentation of ministers of the bazargan cabinet, Tehran
Abbas Attar
Date: February 14th, 1979
Medium: Vintage resin-coated gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.2
United States Marine Corp boot camp: a recruit that has fallen off a rope is made to stand by himself in front of his buddies, for discipline.
United States Marine Corp boot camp: a recruit that has fallen off a rope is made to stand by himself in front of his buddies, for discipline.
Burk Uzzle
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.258
At a memorial service for comrades killed earlier this week in a fierce battle at the Michelin rubber plantation in South Vietnam, two soldiers of the United States 1st infantry division held their weapons as they prayed for the dead
At a memorial service for comrades killed earlier this week in a fierce battle at the Michelin rubber plantation in South Vietnam, two soldiers of the United States 1st infantry division held their weapons as they prayed for the dead
Horst Faas
Date: December 9, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto with retouching
Object number: 2022.15.131
In Full Battle Gear: as he arrives at a staging area at Dong Ha, South Vietnam, a United States Marine carries full battle gear plus a folding chair he scrounged somewhere. The Marine spent a comfortable night in the chair before climbing aboard a helicopter and flying into battle
In Full Battle Gear: as he arrives at a staging area at Dong Ha, South Vietnam, a United States Marine carries full battle gear plus a folding chair he scrounged somewhere. The Marine spent a comfortable night in the chair before climbing aboard a helicopter and flying into battle
Horst Faas
Date: 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.126
Weird Shantytown in old cemetery was home for 5,000 Saigon war refugees. Like others of the city's slums, the community presented a health hazard, Vietnam
Weird Shantytown in old cemetery was home for 5,000 Saigon war refugees. Like others of the city's slums, the community presented a health hazard, Vietnam
Unknown artist, American
Date: 1965-1970
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with applied pigment
Object number: 2024.21.243
Jerusalem Alley, A Symbolic Warsaw Street: when Soviet and Polish troops met in Warsaw on January 17, 1945, it was in Jerusalem Alley that they met. At that time, Warsaw was 95% destroyed and this street, like the rest, was like a cemetery in the city of the dead. But today, 15 years later, the scene has changed considerably. There are still a few ruins to be seen, true, but for the most part, the street has been entirely rebuilt. Most of the older buildings are in the grimly-blunt Soviet-style of architecture; but in more recent structures, even this changed. And since the October 1956 revolution, a new wind of dignity and freedom has blown down the street. It is no longer an eastern city, nor is it entirely a western one. But one thing is certain, it is Polish. Pictured: a shoe store window draws a big crowd in goods hungry Warsaw.
Jerusalem Alley, A Symbolic Warsaw Street: when Soviet and Polish troops met in Warsaw on January 17, 1945, it was in Jerusalem Alley that they met. At that time, Warsaw was 95% destroyed and this street, like the rest, was like a cemetery in the city of the dead. But today, 15 years later, the scene has changed considerably. There are still a few ruins to be seen, true, but for the most part, the street has been entirely rebuilt. Most of the older buildings are in the grimly-blunt Soviet-style of architecture; but in more recent structures, even this changed. And since the October 1956 revolution, a new wind of dignity and freedom has blown down the street. It is no longer an eastern city, nor is it entirely a western one. But one thing is certain, it is Polish. Pictured: a shoe store window draws a big crowd in goods hungry Warsaw.
Dr. Claude Jacoby
Date: 1960
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.109
Marine Landscape
Marine Landscape
Otto Eglau
Date: 1960
Medium: Color etching
Object number: 1984.111