Japanese surrender in Okinawa, Japan during World War. American naval personnel set up a loudspeaker on a beach and a man announces the terms of surrender to the civilians. Civilians struggle through rocks and underbrush. A woman with a child tied to her back climbs up a cliff and surrenders. Civilians emerge and surrender. Japanese seated in a field. Some loaded onto a truck.
Japanese surrender in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Coast under bombardment by Americans as smoke rises. American naval personnel in a vessel approach a beach. Japanese civilians on the beach. Vessel nears the beach. Civilians swim towards the vessel. American men throw a rope and life saving tube. Japanese come aboard the vessel one by one. A man announces the terms of surrender on a loudspeaker. Some more civilians swim to the vessel. Japanese men photographed aboard the vessel.
Allied invasion of Okinawa, Japan during World War. LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) stands by in transport area. A man at a 40 mm antiaircraft gun. Men wearing life jackets at the gun. They train and point the gun. Shells explode at the coast of Geruma Shima.
Allied invasion of Okinawa, Japan during World War. LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) approach an anchored LST (Landing ship Tank). LVT enters a LST. Line of LST underway. Coast of Geruma Shima strafed by aerial bombings. LVT exit from the tank deck of a LST. Allied troops in a landing craft approach the beach. Soldiers move on the beach after landing.
Allied invasion of Okinawa, Japan during World War. American troops walk past a native village with huts in the background. LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) approach the beach at Geruma Shima as smoke rises. LVT at the beach. A number of LVT underway as they move towards the beach.
Japanese kamikaze suicide pilot divers attack hospital ship USS Comfort (AH-6), during action off Okinawa, Japan. Damaged USS Comfort. A sign : 'U.S. Navy ship, USS Comfort'. Wounded nurses and casualties are carried and transfered to a van. Burial services are held at a military cemetery on Guam: coffins draped with the flags of the United States are carried to the cemetery. The nurses who treated the casualties shown mourning. The flag draped coffins. Graves of the Americans and the flag of the United States at the Guam cemetery. (World War II period).