U.S. Marines transfer command post near Shuri in Okinawa. A Marine carrying a large reel of telephone wire tries to get through flooded and muddy road. Vehicles stuck in background. Other Marine follows with full transport pack on. They carry crates of supplies on stretchers. Marines carry packs and equipment, going over flooded and muddy road. Some of them going over road which still has flood stream running over it. Marines with supplies going around edge of embankment, flood water coming over embankment and falling down into revetment.
U.S. Marines transfer command post near Shuri in Okinawa. Marines carry supplies through muddy and flooded terrain. Marines load onto trucks. Men hand supplies up to other men on truck. They wade through flooded roads. More supplies transferred on truck. Three Marines light cigarettes.
United States 22nd Marine Regiment advance towards Naha, Okinawa. One Marine advances through a field with wooded area on side. Smoke arises from some huts across village. Marines advance across the village from left to right. A large smoke stack is shelled. Explosions near stack. Second explosion hits it and smoke stack falls over. (World War II period).
City of Naha shelled by U.S. artillery, Okinawa. View of city of Naha. Smoke arises in different sections from burning buildings. River in foreground. Artillery shells the town. Explosions and smoke rises as the shell burst all around. A large building burns. Smoke rises.
City of Naha shelled by U.S. artillery, Okinawa. American aircraft come down in flames. Two of them fall after they crash in midair. Marines move towards Naha city. Smoke arises from city as many buildings burn.
U.S. 6th Marines, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Regiment advances in Okinawa. Marines advance on the double. Shells burst around. Flamethrower tank operate on a Japanese pillbox and shoot flames towards it. (World War II period).