Evacuation of civilians of Okinawa in Japan, during World War II. Civilians evacuated from a village in Okinawa, which is to be site for an air base. The civilians with their belongings move through the village. A few women carrying their belongings walk. The area in Okinawa being proposed for the air base site. Vehicles move on a path in the region. Equipment at work to clear the area. Huts in the village. Women and children beside the huts. Elderly people in the front area of the huts. Trucks moving along a road. The trucks move in a line carrying the civilians.
Okinawan workers during the work of an airstrip in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. The workers in a village in Okinawa, gather in a group. The workers move in a line to a desk where a pair of U.S. Military Police are seated. Each worker signs on a document. A policeman looks on. Few policemen stand behind the desk. The workers bow to an officer who walks past them. The workers move in a group. A few men in the group eating out of a bowl. The group of workers in a field which is the proposed site for the air base. The workers move in a line along a road. A few workers,with hammers in their hands, at work in the area. Sacks of sand stacked by the workers. Workers along the side of a road. Trucks with material move along the road. Heavy equipment grading the ground for the airstrip. Workers operate heavy equipment. A few workers painting the roof and sides of a building in the area. Aircraft taking off from the new airstrip.
Orphaned children in Okinawa, Japan, during Battle of Okinawa of World War II. The U.S. troops advance through the roads of a rubbled village. Trees and damaged buildings along the sides of the road. A U.S. soldier, holding guns, walks along the side of a rubbled building and finds a small child. Two soldiers seated beside the child. One of the soldiers wipes the face of the child. The soldiers pick up the child and move towards the army jeep. The army jeep with soldiers and the child moves along the road. The jeep stops near a building. The soldier takes the child to the center for lost and orphaned children in Okinawa. The child is placed on a low table. A Red Cross worker and a man puts new clothes on the child and attends to the child. Views of other children in the center. The Red Cross worker feeds the child from a bowl. The workers at the center gives medical attention to a wounded child. A worker attends to a few days old baby. A child in the center looks on.
Japanese prisoners in Okinawa, Japan, during Battle of Okinawa of World War II. Japanese prisoners are marched on a muddy field by U.S. troops. The prisoners walk past a tent. The prisoners are put in an enclosure with a wire fencing. 'PW Enclosure' written outside the enclosure. A U.S. soldier opens a can of C-ration and gives it to a Japanese prisoner The prisoner eats the C-ration given to him inside the enclosure.
Japanese prisoners in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. U.S. troops with a few Japanese prisoners on a marshy area. The group of prisoners on a field. The prisoners, in columns, are marched along a path in the area by U.S. troops. Wounded prisoners in the group. Two men on either side of a wounded prisoner, help him to walk. A few prisoners seated on the ground. Partially clothed prisoners, in a group on the field. A few of them standing and a few others sitting. The prisoners moving in columns. Two U.S. soldiers attend to a wounded prisoner. A few wounded prisoners are loaded into a truck. A jeep loaded with prisoners. The vehicles move along a road and reaches the war prisoners' enclosure.
Japanese prisoners in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. The Japanese prisoners are brought in trucks by the U.S. troops to be enclosed. The Japanese prisoners get out of the trucks. U.S. soldiers search the prisoners. The prisoners are sent into a wire-fenced enclosure. The prisoners inside the enclosure. Small tents inside the enclosure. The prisoners standing in lines. The corpsmen attending to wounded prisoners who are laid on stretchers. A prisoner's eye being bandaged by two other prisoners.
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