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The 'thunder of their bombs': The Battle of Okinawa in World War II


The ‘thunder of their bombs’: The Battle of Okinawa in World War II
Updated Apr 01, 2021;
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Miller wrote then, “For the sailors aboard the USS Chilton, mere inches were about to spell the difference between life and a watery or fiery death on that dangerous morning of April 2, 1945.
Their Navy attack transport was in a convoy supporting the U.S. invasion of Okinawa in the final climactic battle of World War II in the Pacific.
‘As soon as I got on deck I heard a loud explosion,’ the Lower Allen Twp. man recalled. ‘Water and flames and pieces of the plane were all over the place.’ ....

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