Activities of the U.S. 1st and the 6th Marine Divisions on the island of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A marine waves a green flag and gives signal to a plane to take off. The plane takes off. The plane carries wounded to the medical aid station. Marines take out the wounded from the plane and take them to the field hospital on stretchers. Airplane in flight.
Activities of the U.S. 1st and the 6th Marine Divisions on the island of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Marines clean out caves with flame throwers and satchel charges. Some Japanese soldiers committing suicide rather than surrendering. Planes drop fire bombs into wooded areas. Smoke arising due to the bombardment.
Activities of the U.S. 1st and the 6th Marine Divisions on the island of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. United States Marines advance on the battlefield. Tank flame throwers and prosperous grenades being used to fire cane fields driving Japanese from cover. Japanese prisoners of war stripped to their loincloths, being marched to the stockade. United States flag flies from a pole after capturing the island of Okinawa.
Captured Japanese baka suicide bomb (Yokosuka Ohka; Yokosuka MXY-7 ), a rocket-powered, human-guided kamikaze attack-aircraft employed by Japan in World War II. U.S. troops and bomb disposal personnel in Okinawa Island. Bomb disposal personnel disarm explosive head of Japanese baka suicide bomb. Man look into tail and cockpit of baka flying bomb aircraft. Rocket tubes of baka lying in field.
Japanese civilian prisoners are loaded aboard dukw on Okinawa Island. U.S. Army troops lined up. Children and women aboard dukw. Japanese civilians carry loads of wood into a compound in which civilian internees are kept. Group of civilians seated around fire, bundled up for warmth. They drink in turn from canteen cup. They wear life preservers. Nisei Japanese questions civilians. Military Police watch as a Japanese solder is questioned (World War II period).
United States 7th Infantry Division soldiers advance on Okinawa Island. Aircraft in flight over Okinawa. Major General Archibald V Arnold and Lieutenant General Simon B Buckner observe action from hilltop observation point. Smoke arises from explosions in field. (World War II period).