Japanese prisoners of war (POW) in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. The Japanese prisoners are brought in trucks by the U.S. troops to be enclosed. The Japanese prisoners get out of the trucks. U.S. soldiers search the prisoners. The prisoners are sent into a wire-fenced enclosure. The prisoners inside the enclosure. Small tents inside the enclosure. The prisoners standing in lines. The corpsmen attending to wounded prisoners who are laid on stretchers. A prisoner's eye being bandaged by two other prisoners.
Japanese prisoners in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. The Japanese prisoners of war (POW) preparing soups in huge vessels. The soup being served to the prisoners. The prisoners, in a wire-fenced enclosure, having the soup from bowls. The prisoners unloading ration supplies from trucks. The prisoners stacking the supplies inside the enclosure. 'PW' written on the backs of the prisoners' shirts. Prisoners working on the wire fencing. Prisoners having bath. Prisoners having haircut and shave. Two prisoners playing a board game. A few prisoners watching. Two prisoners engaged in a judo match. Other prisoners seated in a circle around them and watch as they wrestle.
Japanese prisoners in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. The Japanese prisoners of war (POW) stand in a group inside a wire-fenced enclosure. The prisoners attending religious services. A man facing the prisoners, seated and playing an instrument. The prisoners citing hymns. A U.S. Army soldier reads to the prisoners from a board with Japanese written on it. The group of prisoners seated on the ground during the religious services. Two men standing in the front and the man playing the instrument seated on a chair.
General Roy Geiger and General Simon Buckner I Okinawa, Japan. General Buckner and General Joseph Stilwell confer outside a tent. Tanks and infantrymen move at Hill 92 for a battle against Japanese troops. Heavy fire takes place and a Japanese officer with a badly burnt face surrenders to American soldiers. Officer fed Japanese officer after interrogating him. (World War II period).
'Naval operations off Okinawa '. Japanese ships underway in the sea, off the coast of Okinawa in Japan. A Japanese plane shot down by American carrier aircraft. It also strafes a Japanese ship. Japanese planes attack American ships and shot. Fire on United States Navy cruiser Bunker Hill fought by men. Seamen rescued as they climb onto a ship. A fighter's belly tank drops on a carrier while landing and causes fire. (World War II period).
Soldiers along a grassy slope at Okinawa in Ryukyu Island of Japan. Soldiers fire 155 mm gun. Soldiers of United States 307th Regiment's 77th Division get down from military jeeps and move up a muddy mountain road. (World War II period).