Invasion of Aguni Jima in Okinawa, Japan. Japanese civilians place an old woman on wooden pallet. Several Japanese children sit near elders on a ground. Japanese civilians cross the field. Some carry very old people on wooden pallets. A girl carries a baby on her back. Japanese civilians walk in a group.
Air evacuation of casualties on Okinawa, Japan by the 163rd Liaison Squadron. L-5B's land on extremely narrow road near Itoman, which serves as a makeshift airstrip. First Medical Battalion personnel place U.S. Marine causualties aboard Stinson L-5B aircraft. Several L-5Bs are seen landing, having wounded placed on board, and taking off again. Man with signal flag directs landings. One L-5B is seen being pushed backwards to the patient loading area, after landing. A wounded Marine on a stretcher is fastened into the aircraft which then takes off.
Air evacuation of Marine causualties from narrow road, near Itomen, Okinawa in 1945. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron lands and rolls past a flagman and waiting Marine with arm wound. View of the wounded Marine inside the airplane. View of L-5B taking off and in flight. Wounded Marine on stretcher being loaded on an L-5B and another being taken, on a stretcher, from an ambulance and loaded on an L-5B.
Evacuation of Japanese causalities in Okinawa, Japan. Two United States Navy Corpsmen walk in a village and enter a hut. They carry out an old Japanese woman from the hut. They place her on a wooden pallet and carry her away for medical aid. Marines carry a Japanese girl with her foot cut off by the Japanese. Girl talks to the Marines.
Allied troops in Okinawa, Japan. Anti tank tracers fire against hill side and smoke rises. A tree in the foreground as a tank burns. Explosion of fire bombs o hillside. Smoke rises from the hill. United States marines in tank destroyers move away. (World War II period).
Japanese equipment in Senaga Shima, Okinawa in Japan. A view of the huts in the area. A man measures a 6 ½ inch Japanese shell case with a scale. He holds a detonator and a nose fuse cap.
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