31st MEU Marines, Sailors build understanding of Okinawa Battle history [Image 33 of 36]

OKINAWA, JAPAN

07.13.2018

Photo by Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parish 

31st Marine Expeditionary Unit       

Cpl. Lee Flodder, left, and Lance Cpl. Ryan Denfeld, both machine gunners with Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, view the names of men killed as part of the Battle of Okinawa at the Peace Memorial Park during a Marine Corps Community Services-sponsored tour of historically significant points of interest across southern Okinawa, Japan, July 13, 2018. Flodder, a native of Batesville, Indiana, enlisted in September 2015 after graduating from Batesville High School in 2010. Denfeld, a native of Hillsborough, Oregon, graduated from Hillsborough High School in 2014 before enlisting in June 2015. The Peace Memorial Park names each member of the Japanese and U.S. militaries killed during the Battle of Okinawa. During the tour, Marines and Sailors with the 31st MEU learned about the savage fighting of the Battle of Okinawa, which pitted U.S. Marine, U.S. Navy and U.S. Army forces against the Imperial Forces of Japan. The more than two-month battle claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, both military and civilian, between April and mid-June 1945. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parish/Released)

• Date Taken: 07.13.2018
• Date Posted: 07.13.2018 06:41
• Photo ID: 4554124
• VIRIN: 180713-M-PJ332-549
• Resolution: 1200x800
• Size: 538.04 KB
• Location: OKINAWA, JP