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United States 7th Infantry Division soldiers advance under artillery fire in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.

United States 7th Infantry Division soldiers advance on Okinawa Island. Artillery shells explode on hillside. White smoke arises from exploding shells. Helmet of a soldier and a hill in the background. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April 19
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052678
United States 7th Infantry Division soldiers cross valley and advance up hillside in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.

United States 7th Infantry Division soldiers advance on Okinawa Island. Ground view from top of mountain. Formation of aircraft overhead. A tree in the foreground. Flame throwing tanks in action. Aircraft in flight. Soldiers cross valley and advance up hillside. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April 19
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052679
Native inhabitants of Okinawa Island, Japan

Native people of Okinawa. Japanese civilians walk on road. An elderly Okinawan woman on the street. An Okinawan man carrying a pole. A young woman and elderly woman in front of a watch shop. A Japanese woman in kimono crosses the road. Smiling Japanese men and women. Okinawan farmer tending pineapple plants. American Air Force non-commissioned officers at a bank window in a bank. Car drives past "Italian Food House Restaurant." An Okinawan farmer works on a farm. A Shinto shrine in Okinawa. Two Japanese men fix a boat. Truck at a mining site. Public union demonstrators demonstrate against United States air bases carrying red flags with Japanese writing.

Date: 1972
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025529
United States 6th Battalion tanks fire over plain in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.

Marines of 6th Marine Regiment 22nd Marines advance in Okinawa. Tanks move across plain. Tanks fire out over plain. M4A3 tank and Marines moves along road. Four M4A2 tanks move out from cover onto plain. M4A2 under cover of trees. Marine behind the turret of tank uses binoculars. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, June 14
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052810
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
Wounded American soldiers on litters transferred from tents to ambulance in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.

Signs read 'CP, 7th Medical Battalion,' and 'Catagut Clearing Station'. Two casualties get out of ambulance. Wounded on litters are taken from tent. Wounded man on litter is carried from Shock tent (sign "Shock" over door...related to post traumatic stress disorder, or "PTSD" in modern terms) and given blood plasma transfusion during his transfer to an ambulance. Man closes doors of jeep. Piper Cub plane parked on rocky field. Sea in the background. Casualty is carried out from plane on litter. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, June 21
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052269