Refine Your Search

Kin Okinawa Ryukyu Islands 1945 stock footage and images

- Showing 7 to 12 of 9331 results
United States 7th Division infantrymen carry Japanese rations out of houses in Kin village, Okinawa.

Kin village mop up on east coast of Okinawa by United States 7th Infantry Division. Infantrymen carry Japanese ration out of houses. Japanese civilians watch infantrymen. Soldier puts carton of Chesterfield cigarettes found in hut on top of Japanese rations. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, June 6
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052688
Children and women rounded up by United States 7th Division infantrymen in Kin village, Okinawa (WW2)

Kin village mop up on east coast of Okinawa by United States 7th Infantry Division in World War II. Japanese civilians get out of houses. Infantrymen search house. Women and children rounded up by infantrymen assembled in front of the house.

Date: 1945, June 6
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052689
United States 7th Division infantrymen using flame throwers at entrance to cave in Kin village, Okinawa.

Kin village mop up on east coast of Okinawa by United States 7th Infantry Division. White phosphorus bomb explodes in wooded area. Infantrymen using flame throwers at entrance to cave. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, June 6
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052690
Japanese women wash clothes at Kin water point spring in Okinawa, Japan.

Japanese women and children wash clothes at Kin water point spring in Okinawa, Japan. People carrying sacks of clothes on top of their heads. Group of women doing laundry in spring. A child takes out clothes from a bag. A woman scrubs clothes with soap and brush.

Date: 1945, July 7
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038714
Japanese delegates reach Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands and then advance towards Manila, Philippine Islands in the South East Asia.

Japanese surrender in Southeast Asia during World War II. Airplanes in formation flight. Two Japanese Mitsubishi G4M-1 'Betty' twin-engine bombers painted white with green crosses on their wings, fuselage and tail land at Ie Shima Ryukyu Islands near Okinawa carrying Japanese delegates. The planes land at Nichols Field at 1813 hours. The planes are dubbed 'Bataan number 1' and 'Bataan number 2.' Lt. Gen. Torasirou Kawabe, the vice chief of the Japanese Army's General Staff and his surrender party disembark from the airplanes. Members of the surrender party include Rear Admiral Ichiro Yokoyama Representative, Imperial Japanese Navy Staff., Colonel Yashima Terai General Staff, Colonel Orato Yamoto General Staff, Mr. Morio Yakawa Secretary, Japanese foreign office. Kawabe leads the surrender party. Army C-54 transport airplanes parked. Japanese surrender delegates board the airplanes which take off for Manila, Philippines. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur speaks to his troops from a balcony at the war damaged Manila City Hall (Padre Burgos Ave, Ermita, Manila, 1000 Metro Manila) on 20 August 1945. He notes that he is hopeful that they will all be able to return home soon.

Date: 1945, August 19
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072158
U.S. 8th Regiment Combat troops during invasion of Aguni, Shimajiri District, Okinawa, Japan during World War II.

Invasion of Aguni, a village in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Battleships at sea during invasion of Aguni in Ryukyu Islands in Japan on 9th June 1945. Artillery fired from the ships. Landing crafts carrying 8th Regiment Combat troops approach the island. The troops holding guns, advance on the island. The soldiers fire guns. The soldiers move under cover. The Japanese civilians come out of their hiding in underground shelters. A civilian and few others come out of their hiding place. The Japanese civilians being held. Women and children standing on the road. The native women prostrate before a soldier. The soldier offers them cigarettes to calm their fear. Soldiers with the women and children.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054936