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United States 6th Battalion tanks dig in at edge of large open area in Okinawa.
Marines of 6th Marine Regiment 22nd Marines advance in Okinawa. M4A2 tanks move along road. 6th Battalion tanks dig in at edge of large open area.
Japanese prisoners behind barbed wire with women and children inside enclosure in Okinawa.
Japanese prisoners captured by U.S. 6th Marine Regiment 22nd Marines in Okinawa. Japanese prisoners behind barbed wire. Women and children inside enclosure. Other Japanese prisoners. (World War II period).
U.S. 6th Marine Regiment 22nd Marines work their way up mountainside in Okinawa.
U.S. 6th Marine Regiment 22nd Marines advance in Okinawa. Marines work their way up mountain side. They cover entrance to cave on mountain side. They advance to top of peak. Small group of Marines stripped to shorts, holding surrender flags.
U.S. M4A2 tank blasts Japanese entrenchment with flamethrower on mountainside in Okinawa.
U.S. 6th Marine Regiment 22nd Marines advance on mountain in Okinawa. Marine receives fire on peak and he runs for cover. Marine with 30 cal light machine gun change position of machine gun. Marine in prone position firing BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle). Marines in the foreground watch burning of Japanese entrenchment. Burned Japanese bodies in entrenchment, Marine walks over same. Marines take cover behind rock wall in the foreground. M4A2 tank on side of hill, blasting entrenchment with flamethrower. (World War II period).
U.S. 3rd Battalion 22nd Marines carry civilian women on stretchers, Okinawa.
U.S. 3rd Battalion 22nd Marines on Okinawa island during World War 2. Two Marines carry elderly woman out of hut and lay her down. They gently lift the aged woman onto door which is used as a stretcher. Woman is carried away. Marines set down stretcher holding two women, one suffering from malnutrition. View of legs of other young woman, whose right leg is bent and cut off at ankle by the Japanese when she refused to fall back with the retreating Japanese soldiers. Cameraman slate at end of clip states "Okinawa: Civilians taken from hiding places - When the Japs told them the oncoming Marines would kill them."
Batteries of M-7 firing 105mm howitzers out on enemy positions in Okinawa.
U.S. 3rd Battalion 22nd Marines in combat with enemy in Okinawa. Marines and several M-7 mortar carriages move across creek to new positions. M-7 tanks in new positions, firing 105mm Howitzers out. Marine carries shells to side of M-7 and hands it over to crew in turret. Artillery fire in valley. (World War II period).