The U.S. forces combat the Japanese kamikaze suicide plane attacks in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. The suicide planes attack a ship at sea. A U.S. lookout watches through a binocular. The lookouts being given recognition training. A lookout observes through a binocular from the deck of a ship. A ship being attacked. Lookouts stand on the ship deck . Artillery being fired from gun barrel. Soldiers climb on the naval gun. The inclination of the gun barrel being adjusted. The U.S. ships at sea. The animation depicts the fire distribution of the ships on the suicide planes. The naval guns fire on the suicide planes. The aircraft catches fire and falls into the sea. Soldiers at the naval gun. animation depicts the course of formation of the ships to hit the target.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Thanksgiving services are held by a Protestant chaplain to celebrate a victory. A Catholic Marine chaplain holds thanksgiving services. Men receive communion.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Okinawan civilians are taken out of caves and assisted to the top of a ridge by the Marines. Hospital corpsmen treat wounded civilians.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Okinawan civilians are taken out from a large cave and are assisted to the top of a ridge by the Marines. United States Marine Corps Major General Roy Geiger watches the operations.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Smoke rises from a grenade explosion. A Japanese soldier lying on the ground is shot with a pistol by a U.S. Marine and is dragged out of a culvert under a roadway. A native or a prisoner is seen crouched and looking into a cave hole. A phosphorous grenade is thrown into the culvert that passes under the road.
Landing craft traffic at a beachhead in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. U.S. Army radiomen use a radio field set. A man holds a bullhorn to direct the landing craft traffic. A line of soldiers handle supplies off an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel).