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.
United States H-6 helicopter flies over wooden terrain in Luzon,Philippines during World War II. It approaches a clear area along a mountain road with a building as a number of locals stand there. H-6 lands and local children gather around the helicopter. Later it lifts off.
U.S. Army pilot and ground crewman inspect litter space on L-5C, tail number 44-17383. The aircraft taxis past a parked Sikorsky R-6 helicopter and takes off. Four pilots in flight suits converse near two L-5s. Large group of Philippine children gather behind them. A U.S. soldier (Corporal) is brought on a stretcher and placed on ground near the L-5C. The children gather all around to watch. They are led away about 50 feet from the airplane, as the stricken Corporal is loaded into the Stinson L-5C air ambulance aircraft. A trailing slate reads: "Survivors MACASPAC"
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