Invasion of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Coming aboard the flagship of Task Force 58 is Admiral Marc Mitscher. Conferences in Guam come to an end. Officers walk. U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander in Chief, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sends an armada of 1400 vessels to Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands. Fleet underway to Okinawa. Troops of the U.S. 10th Army division play cards, play music and dance on the deck to entertain themselves. Officer distributes money to the soldiers aboard the ship. Troops stand with money. Guns of the fleet fire at land. Rockets being fired at shore. Landing crafts reach the shore. Troops walk on the shore in Okinawa. Japanese dugouts and pillboxes being destroyed with grenades. Soldiers talk and share food with civilians on the island.
British and Indian combat troops recapture Mandalay, Burma after three years of Japanese occupation during World War II. Blast in the city. A series of blasts occur in the city. A Burmese temple in the fore ground. Troop in prone position fire rifle. Troops fire artillery. Military tanks advance in the city, temple in the background. The capture of Fort Dufferin (present day Mandalay Palace) from the Japanese. Army trucks advance in the city. Troops advance in a jeep. Japanese prisoners captured and brought to British camp. Burmese temple with a statue of an elephant and a dragon.
San Francisco Security conference of representatives of four powers meets in Washington DC prior to the United Nations San Francisco Parley. United States Secretary of States Edward R. Stettinius Jr. meets British ambassador to U.S. Edward Wood (Lord Halifax), Russian ambassador to U.S. Andrei Gromyko, and Chinese ambassador to U.S., Dr. Wei Tao-ming. Assistant Secretary Archibald MacLeish speaks on a microphone. Chinese ambassador speaks. Assistant Secretary of State, Archibald MacLeish, poses and talks on a microphone.
Golfers entertain wounded veterans at Naval Air Station in Atlanta, Georgia. People and wounded sit and watch. Byron Nelson teaches a wounded veteran to play golf. The wounded watch. Joe Kirkwood puts the golf ball on the foot of a man and swings the club. In a dangerous trick stunt, he puts the ball on mouth of a man and hits the ball with a golf club.
U.S. Destroyers USS Newcomb (DD-586) and the USS Leutze (DD-481) attacked by Japanese kamikaze suicide planes in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Sailors on ship observe damaged parts of a ship. Water splashes on a ship. A sailor loads gun. Sailor seated at a damaged ship.
Floating dry docks for repairs shown in the Pacific Ocean. Panels of dry dock carried in a ship. U.S. Navy Floating dry dock in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. A U.S. Naval officer salutes. Sailors salute as U.S. flag is hoisted at the dock. At time 00:33 to 1:00 light cruiser, USS Cleveland, CL-55, arrives at floating dry dock and is raised out of the water. A fleet oiler(AO)is shown raised out of the water in the floating dry dock.
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