Okinawa;Japan

Scope and Contents Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The pattern of cultivated and idle fields, all small, as land is being re-occupied by Okinawans after close of the campaign, this is the southern part where soils are Regosols and Reddish Brown Lateritic soils. Fields in right foreground are on Regosols from calcareous clays and associated Alluvial soils; borrow pits and most of highlands are underlain by limestone. Far skyline is sawtooth ridge of limestone defended so long by...

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The pattern of small patches, mainly in sweet potatoes, on Regosols from calcareous clays and an Okinawan village as seen from the limestone bluff at the west end of Rykom, Okinawa. The higher ridges beyond the village are limestone-capped (mainly in forest) . The horizon is the East China Sea."

Scope and Contents Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The pattern of land use on the alluvium and mountain slopes of northern Okinawa. Ripening rice occupies most of the poorly drained Alluvial soils in the foreground and is also growing on some of the terraces up the slope to a point about a third of the way up. The poorly drained soils are comparable to the Wehadkee series, whereas the shallow soils of the mountains are like the Chandler, Muskingum, and Coeburn series. The crops over...

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Mountain slopes of northern Okinawa, with rice paddies in the foreground and crops of sweet potatoes, millet, and taro on the terraces. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "View to the right from the same point as H5. Rice paddies go up the slope to the clump of bananas, and dry-land crops cover terraces above that point. The forest on the crest is on shallow soils from cherty limestone, clay slates, and cherts."

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A burned American tank near the seacoast north of Yonabaru, Okinawa. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "One of bogged-down, disabled tanks shown in G140, which had burned."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Group of young Okinawan girls on their way to school at the village of Tshua, first one south of Shana Wan, afoot on the coast road with footbridge to Miyagi Shima, the island itself, and the mountain slopes above Shioya in background. One little girl has her rough table and stool; all are in their better clothes."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The trampling of sweet potato vines into the soil of the rice paddies. Just south of Akamaru Misaki and north of the village of Bama, Okinawa. The children have carried the organic matter to the paddies before tramping it in. The uplands in the distance consist of Bed Podzolic soils from terrace sediments supported by limestone."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "A rocky point, a sea arch, and the coast road (rip-rapped with stone) as seen looking south from point about one half mile south of the village of Ginami, itself about three miles south of Hedo Misaki. Motobu peninsula is along the far skyline."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Column of 4 disabled American tanks bogged down in Awase clay near seacoast north of Yonabaru, Okinawa. Two of the tanks have been hit and set afire, the others are simply stuck."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Small fields of Reddish-Brown Lateritic soils from limestone dug up and ready for the setting out of sweet potato slips near Nakajin, northern Motobu peninsula. Cycad leaves are placed between the rows in this patch to add organic matter; other forms are also used."