Landing at Okinawa: A First-Hand Account

Among the U.S. Naval Academy Museum's collection of 60,000 paintings, artifacts, and manuscripts are recordings. Several years ago, the Museum transferred two pallets of records from the 1930s and 1940s to the Library of Congress' Sound Division. In return, they digitized several records that were of interest to us. This episode is a series of reports on March 31 and April 1, 1945, by two reporters (or possibly military public affairs) describing what they saw and heard as they landed on Okinawa with one of the first waves.