Bombs burst and smoke columns rise in Shuri, Okinawa, Japan. Shoreline of Okinawa. Sunken ship close off shore superstructure projects above water. (World War II period).
Men examining wreckage of burial vaults and barracks near Shuri, Okinawa in Japan. Wreckage of 1937 ford in rubble. Ford emblem. Marine cleans Japanese rifle. TBF Avenger plane drops supplies by parachute. Parachutes drifting downward.
Marines attach small American flag to stick in Shuri, Okinawa, Japan. A Marine of the 1st Marine Division climbs hill to plant flag over Shuri Castle. Flag planted on top of hill.
Marines advance across open area in Shuri, Okinawa, Japan. Marines resting in small valley. White smoke rises and drifts across open plain. Wrecked embankment. Dead Japanese on ground. Marine examines one of them.
U.S. military personnel working at end of Henderson airfield on Guadalcanal during World War 2. One pushes a wheelbarrow. Camera pans across and along runway to P-38 aircraft parked haphazardly in grass. It continues to pan, showing lots of damaged aircraft and parts, including several P-40s. Mechanics work on one of the P-40s. A fuel truck passes. Tents are seen behind the piles of parts and aircraft. Numerous auxiliary fuel tanks are piled up in one area. Broken aircraft parts are seen in a ditch off the side of the runway. Trees and foliage are in the background with tents pitched amongst them. As the camera continues to pan farther down the runway, it reveals more orderly campsites, with tents and laundry drying. Mechanics work on the engine of a P-38 parked on a sandy ramp. Palm trees and water seen in background. More P-38s are parked in good order. Scene shifts to a P-38 taking off. It is followed by a second, and then a third, all taking off in quick succession.
Battle of Okinawa in Japan, during World War II. U.S. Infantry troops advance on a road lined by trees in the village of Kin in Okinawa. The soldiers, holding guns, move in front of the houses in the village. Women and children seated in front of the houses. Children watch the soldiers in front of a building. A board, with letters written in Japanese. The U.S. soldiers with the villagers. Soldiers inspecting Japanese uniforms. The soldiers searching for Japanese troops in the village. The Japanese troops dressed as villagers being led away by the U.S. troops.
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