U.S. amphibious landings on Red Beach 2 in Okinawa during World War 2. U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Metcalf (DD-595) fires guns toward shore. Behind her is the Cruiser, USS Baltimore (CA-68) also firing her guns. Closeup of the USS Metcalf as first waves of Company "A", 4th U.S. Marine Regiment, in amphibious landing craft head toward Red Beach 2. They pass in front of the USS Metcalf and USS Baltimore, as both ships continue firing at the shore. Views from a landing craft of others in the first landing wave. Brief closeup of U.S. Marines crowded in their landing craft.
Activities of natives and U.S. 1st Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan on the L+3 Day during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. U.S. 1st Marine Division, 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment walks across a field. Communication men lay wires. An LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked). Men go up a ridge. Marines come inland from Red Beach. The beach in the background.
U.S. amphibious landings in Okinawa following L-Day. View from moving Landing craft. Landing craft goes toward island, firing guns. Shell bursts and smoke on island in the background. Gunner on LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) fires machine gun toward island. LVT A-4 comes up on beach. Line of Marines crouched down and moves cautiously through hilly terrain. They dug in on hilly, red terrain. Marines run across hilly terrain. Marine with wounded arm runs back toward beach with weapon in hand. (World War II period).
Whole invasion fleet of the United States Navy in Operation Iceberg, or more famously known as the Battle of Okinawa, during World War 2. Invasion fleet includes amphibious ships such as patrol craft coastals, submarine chasers, battleships, LST (or Tank Landing ships), LCI (Landing Craft Infantry), Landing Ship Medium (LSM), and landing craft such as the LCVP (landing craft vehicle personnel boat or also known as the Higgins boat). A Tank Landing ship sails towards Okinawa, showing military equipment and with sectional pontoons attached to its side. Landed amphibious LVT tanks and Higgins boats on the Green Beach in Okinawa’s coast. Invasion fleet in Green Beach in Okinawa during Battle of Okinawa. Okinawa Island in smoke from Battle of Okinawa off green beach.
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.
Air evacuation of wounded United States Marines on Okinawa during June 1945 by U.S. Army Air Forces Stinson and Marine Corps L-5B. Various shots of wounded Marines on stretchers being unloaded from the aircraft. Medics carrying the wounded to a medical hut. More L-5B's land. A wounded Marine on a stretcher in L-5B talks with men standing outside the aircraft. Marine on a stretcher being released from harness. Stretcher being carried to a medical tent. L-5B aircraft lands and a litter case being loaded aboard Red Cross ambulance. Ambulance pulls away from the area with tents in the background. A shark-mouthed Marine Corps OY-1 (Stinson L-5) with the name "Budie" painted on nose taxis in front of camera. Identifiable aircraft in this clip: 44-16952 and 44-17164, both of the 163rd Liaison Squadron.
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