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 soldiers lying on ground. Marine examines one of them.
Guests from across the nation arrive to attend the wedding of Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport. Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin Jr., Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Actress Marion Davies, Massachusetts Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers arrives at the wedding. Parents of Senator Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald. Bouncers control crowds of well-wishers outside the church. John Kennedy and his wife walk out of the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (12 William St, Newport, RI 02840, United States).
'A' bomb test on Able Day during Operation Crossroads nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll. U.S. navy sailors aboard a U.S. Navy ship. Sailors practice shielding their eyes with hands and heads bent down. Admiral's flag, United States flag and signal flag can be seen. Mushroom cloud seen rising in the sky due to atomic bomb explosion. Sailors stand to watch impact.
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