Invasion of Aguni Jima in Okinawa, Japan. Bombardment on an open area by the Allied Troops. Smoke rises up in the sky. Japanese civilians gathered, including children, who are carried by adults. (World War II period).
Invasion of Aguni Jima in Okinawa, Japan. Japanese civilians sit on ground. A child with bandages on head. U.S. Marine Corpsman bandages small child's head. Another marine bandages a child who has his leg in a splint, and a baby with a wound to the leg.
Invasion of Aguni Jima in Okinawa, Japan. LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) underway in Pacific Theater. Control Boat 'flying Charlie' underway. Landing Craft Infantry aboard LVT. Shoreline of Aguni Jima in view. Bombing on the shoreline. Smoke rises due to explosions on the shoreline. Destroyer ships underway. (World War II period).
Invasion of Aguni Jima in Okinawa, Japan. Japanese civilians place an old woman on wooden pallet. Several Japanese children sit near elders on a ground. Japanese civilians cross the field. Some carry very old people on wooden pallets. A girl carries a baby on her back. Japanese civilians walk in a group.
Air evacuation of casualties on Okinawa, Japan by the 163rd Liaison Squadron. L-5B's land on extremely narrow road near Itoman, which serves as a makeshift airstrip. First Medical Battalion personnel place U.S. Marine causualties aboard Stinson L-5B aircraft. Several L-5Bs are seen landing, having wounded placed on board, and taking off again. Man with signal flag directs landings. One L-5B is seen being pushed backwards to the patient loading area, after landing. A wounded Marine on a stretcher is fastened into the aircraft which then takes off.
Evacuation of Japanese causalities in Okinawa, Japan. Two United States Navy Corpsmen walk in a village and enter a hut. They carry out an old Japanese woman from the hut. They place her on a wooden pallet and carry her away for medical aid. Marines carry a Japanese girl with her foot cut off by the Japanese. Girl talks to the Marines.