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80-G-349316: Okinawa Campaign, Landing, April 1945

80-G-349316: Okinawa Campaign, Landing, April 1945. SS Sylvester Pattie, Liberty Ship, was the first large American vessel docked at Okinawa since the April 1st invasion. It was docked at a new fire proof fuel pier which had just been completed by the 7th Seabees in Buckner Bay, off Katchin Hanto, Okinawa. Shown: Navy Seabees in the right foreground were about to secure a line to the three-pile mooring ballard immediately in front of them. Aft, a similar line was secured to 19-pile dolphin (mooring post) just off the outer end of the pier. In the background, across the pier from the ship, a pile driver may be seen. It had finished its final work, for this pier, in driving the piles for the dolphin. Note USS YTB 229. Photograph released October 22, 1945. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/22)
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Caption: Okinawa Campaign, Landing, April 1945. SS Sylvester Pattie, Liberty Ship, was the first large American vessel docked at Okinawa since the April 1st invasion. It was docked at a new fire proof fuel pier which had just been completed by the 7th Seabees in Buckner Bay, off Katchin Hanto, Okinawa. Shown: Navy Seabees in the right foreground were about to secure a line to the three-pile mooring ballard immediately in front of them. Aft, a similar line was secured to 19-pile dolphin (mooring post) just off the outer end of the pier. In the background, across the pier from the ship, a pile driver may be seen. It had finished its final work, for this pier, in driving the piles for the dolphin. Note USS YTB 229. Photograph released October 22, 1945. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/22)
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