Rehabilitation of natives in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. Native children on the ground. Beans are crushed in a mortar and a pestle. A woman cleans beans by shaking it. The woman cooks food. Two men work with a phonograph record player to start it. Dick Miller, an American actor, with Okinawans in a compound. A native man performs a dance in the compound. The natives watch him.
Activities of U.S. 1st Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. A man of U.S. 1st Marine Division leads a group of Okinawan prisoners. The prisoners march to a stockade. Another man follows at the end of the group.
U.S. 1st Marine Division with the Okinawans in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. A U.S. Marine inspects ruins near Gushikawa. Natives including men, women and children. A U.S. marine smokes with an Okinawan civilian citizen. Young boy shows a Japanese military hat insignia that he is wearing. A Military Police personnel carries a balancing pole holding two buckets on his shoulders. The children carry balancing poles with two buckets. Views of the children.
Assault made by elements of U.S. 10th Army consisting of 1st Marines, 6th Marines, 77th and 96th Army Divisions on Shuri line in Okinawa during World War 2. Two Marines firing Browning M1919, 30 caliber machine gun, from a high ridge. Several bodies of fallen Japanese soldiers. (Note: Marine firing the machine gun might be Robert Sorensen, C-1-5 USMC, who recalled being filmed on Okinawa, while firing his machine gun from a ridge at about this date. He served with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division.)
United States 3rd Medical Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A dentist works on teeth of a Marine in Okinawa, Japan. Dentist works with different instruments. A patient gets out of a dentist's chair as an another Marine waits in the chair in the foreground.
A Stinson L-5 Sentinel observation plane, with hook device on top, flies over the coast of Okinawa in the start of Operation Iceberg, or more famously known as the Battle of Okinawa, during World War 2. Stinson L-5 Sentinel observation plane flies over a United States Navy LST (or tank landing ship) rigged for catching it.