Evacuation of casualties from Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. A casualty carried on a stretcher from a field ambulance and placed into a Stinson L-5B Sentinel aircraft flown by the 163rd Liaison Squadron. Several casualties and L-5B aircraft appear in this historic film footage taken on 21 June 1945. .
Orphaned children in Okinawa, Japan, during Battle of Okinawa of World War II. The U.S. troops advance through the roads of a rubbled village. Trees and damaged buildings along the sides of the road. A U.S. soldier, holding guns, walks along the side of a rubbled building and finds a small child. Two soldiers seated beside the child. One of the soldiers wipes the face of the child. The soldiers pick up the child and move towards the army jeep. The army jeep with soldiers and the child moves along the road. The jeep stops near a building. The soldier takes the child to the center for lost and orphaned children in Okinawa. The child is placed on a low table. A Red Cross worker and a man puts new clothes on the child and attends to the child. Views of other children in the center. The Red Cross worker feeds the child from a bowl. The workers at the center gives medical attention to a wounded child. A worker attends to a few days old baby. A child in the center looks on.
The U.S. troops at the Shuri Line in Ryukyu Islands during the Battle of Okinawa, World War II. Vehicles move across the muddy area. Bulldozer pulls trucks through washed out culvert. Shacks in the area.
The operations of the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Marines advance towards a village. Marines and flame-throwing tanks mop up the village. The huts set on fire. Smoke rises up. Destroyed houses and wrecked vehicles in the area. Aerial view of the destruction.
Operations of the U.S. troops at the Shuri Line in Ryukyu Islands during the Battle of Okinawa, World War 2. A jeep carrying three African American soldiers pass through heavy mud. Wheel of the jeep spins in mud. Jeep being pushed through mud by a bulldozer.
U.S. troops at the Shuri Line in Ryukyu Islands during the Battle of Okinawa, in World War 2. Several Dodge weapons carriers move through mud on highway. Some trucks bog down. Other vehicles with water up to wheel hubs as they drive. Shacks in the area.
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