Stars and Stripes Fly Over Japanese Colonial Soil. Troops of the Army's battle-hardened 77th division watch the American flag rise to the top of a hastily erected flag pole on Geruma Shima in the Keramas group of the Ryukyus a few days before the vast 1,400 ship armada established the Okinawa beachhead 17 miles away. The flag was provided by Coast Guard Lieut. John H. Judge, skipper of a Coast Guard-manned LST which unloaded men and supplies on Geruma Shima. Lieut. Judge live in Belmont, Mass. This picture is an excerpt from a Coast Guard movie film flown back to the from the Ryukyus
Stars and Stripes Fly Over Japanese Colonial Soil. Troops of the Army's battle-hardened 77th division watch the American flag rise to the top of a hastily erected flag pole on Geruma Shima in the Keramas group of the Ryukyus a few days before the vast 1,400 ship armada established the Okinawa beachhead 17 miles away. The flag was provided by Coast Guard Lieut. John H. Judge, skipper of a Coast Guard-manned LST which unloaded men and supplies on Geruma Shima. Lieut. Judge live in Belmont, Mass. This picture is an excerpt from a Coast Guard movie film flown back to the from the Ryukyus.
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