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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).
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).
United States soldier finds and destroys a Japanese Shinyo suicide motorboat (WW2)
A Japanese suicide boat near the Kerama Islands (32 kilometers south-west of Okinawa Island), Japan during World War 2. A coast in the Kerama Islands. A Shinyo-class suicide motorboat is found covered with foliage as camouflage. A United States soldier throws a phosphorus grenade into the suicide boat. Suicide boat in flames. Scattered remains of a suicide boat after its destruction. Motor parts are scattered in the jungle. A soldier inspects remains of suicide boat.
United States APA ships sailing towards the Kerama Islands, Japan (WW2)
United States attack transport ships (APA) sailing toward the beach at Kerama Islands (Japan) during World War 2. A group of APA ships sailing on choppy waters in the Pacific Ocean. View of an APA ship.