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PBM Mariner flying boat takes off from Kerama Retto anchorage, Okinawa.

United States flying boat PBM Mariner at Kerama Retto anchorage, Okinawa. The flying boat PBM Mariner taxies in water. Several flying boats in water. PBM Mariners take off. U.S. Navy Cargo Ships (AK) at anchor.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, July 4
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053472
General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Admiral Mitscher and Admiral Richmond K Turner plan an invasion of Okinawa.

Invasion of Okinawa. U.S. Army and Navy headquarters in Guam, Pacific Ocean. Army and Navy officers walk along path in exteriors of building. Officer arrives to his flagship at fleet's starting point. U.S. convoy underway at sea. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Admiral Mitscher and Admiral Richmond K Turner in conference examine map. Map shows Kerama Islands near Okinawa. U.S. convoy underway and naval bombardment. Landing crafts advance toward island in Kerama group. Amphibious landings on islands in the Kerama group by 77th Division and the 305th Regimental Combat Team. Troops advance and fight enemy. Dead Japanese soldiers. U.S. soldiers question Japanese prisoners and natives. (World War II period).

Location: Kerama Islands Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052926
United States troops take over Tokashiki and Geruama Island prior to invasion of Okinawa.

Invasion of Okinawa. U.S. naval bombardment and shelling on island of Kerama Group. Landing crafts approach beach. LVT (Landing Vechicle, Tracked) move up on beaches of Okinawa. Infantry and armored units of 3rd Battalion, 305th Regimental Combat Team takes immediate control of beach. Japanese caves shelled by howitzers. Troops move inland and further. Japanese suicide boats along caves on shores destroyed by bombs. Japanese interpreter of U.S. 3rd Battalion asks a Korean prisoner in fields to go up hill and persuade Japanese for surrender. Korean prisoner goes towards hill with truce flag. Japanese come down hill. Surrendered Japanese Lieutenant sits with other men. American forces land on another island on Kerama Group where no civilian or military resistance is encountered. Flag rose at captured island. Troops plan invasion of another Kerama Group island aboard ship. Invasion of Tokashiki by U.S. troops. U.S. troops move inland. Troops march along trails on hill. Wrecked houses in town. Officer looks through binocular from observation post. American flag behind officer. Artillery fire shelling Tokashiki Island. (World War II period).

Location: Kerama Islands Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052927
Operation of United States Coast Guard in Okinawa and Iwo Jima, Pacific Theater during World War II

Overseas activities of United States Coast Guard in World War 2. February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines invade Iwo Jima in Pacific Theater. Naval guns and aircraft bombard Iwo Jima. Mountain in the background. Aircraft in flight. Marines and Coast Guardsmen aboard landing craft. Marines landing on Iwo Jima under heavy Japanese fire. Destroyed landing ships litter water's edge. Marines hunkered down and treating wounded, under fire. LSTs and other ships at established beachhead. Vehicles drive onto beach. April 1, 1945, Marines attack Okinawa. Navy warships bombard Okinawa with heavy guns and continuous rocket fire. Beachhead is established against light resistance. Japanese kamikaze aircraft attack American invasion ships. Several ships are hit and sunk. Surviving sailors are helped aboard rescue boats. Antiaircraft fire from American ships fills sky with smoke and flak. A kamikaze aircraft crashes in the sea. Sky filled with American bombers. Aerial view of Atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki Japan on August 9, 1945. Raising American Flag on Japan homeland.

Location: Iwo Jima
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041749
U.S. Army aircraft bombing raids on Japanese cities in 1945, and atomic bomb explosion in World War 2.

Air raids and battle in Japan in the Pacific Theater near the end of World War II. A cemetery of United States military soldiers in the Japanese island of Okinawa. Memorial at the tombstone of Ernie Pyle built by the 77th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. General Doolittle, General Henry Arnold, General George Kenney, General Ennis Whitehead and other officers during a discussion standing before planes at the 48th Air Force base. B-29 aircraft advances towards Tokyo. Bomber aircraft dropping of a number of guided bombs towards their targets. Targets include Japanese airplane factories, shipping industry, military supply chains in the cities of Tokyo, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Okinawa and Yokohama of Japan. Explosion and smoke arises from bombed targets on ground. Aerial wide and close up views of a B-29 aircraft in flight. Narrator notes that on 05 August 1945, Enola Gay, a B-29, carries the atomic bomb and flies towards Hiroshima. Atomic explosion seen signifying the one in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, but narrator indicates the image seen is that of the first atomic explosion (the Trinity test) during on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico. Immense cloud of smoke and light. This atomic explosion, the first of two, was pivotal in compelling Japan to surrender unconditionally. Film ending includes public service announcement image "Buy Bonds. Hold Them. Victory Loan."

Location: Japan
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036307
United States warships and the Marine Corps raid and gain control over the Japanese island of Okinawa, during World War II.

The Pacific Theater of World War II during the Year 1945. Attack on Japanese island of Okinawa by the United States Military. United States Navy ships from the sea, launch a number of missiles towards the islands. The missiles traverse an aerial route and destroy the target Japanese positions. United States Marine Corps raid the island moving in amphibious landing tractors towards the island. Battle between Japanese soldiers and U.S. Marines. American flag hoisted on Okinawa after four months of furious battle. Officials and Military Commanders and soldiers salute the flag.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036365
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