Video: 'Bombardment of Ie Shima, Invasion Of Okinawa, 04/1945 (full)'

(Monday, April 16, 1945; during the Battle of Okinawa, part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — The 77th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army assaulted Ie Island (Ie Shima), a small island off the western end of the Motobu Peninsula of Okinawa.