Okinawa Color Slides
1945 - 1949

Various color slides from the 1945 to 1949 time period.

Naminoue Shrine from the beach below the shrine

The Tamakusuku-son slide was identified through a photo of the same area in a 1957 book showing all the various villages and towns around Okinawa.

Bucknerville American dependent housing area near the harbor of Batan Ko. Bucknerville and Awase housing were the first dependent housing areas to be built outside of any of the military bases. First occupied by dependents in July 1946 when the first dependents arrived on Okinawa.