Mercury Astronauts Scott Carpenter and John Glenn, accompanied by several other persons, walk across a beach on Grand Turk Island. They carry scuba gear; board an outboard motorboat; and head out in the water.
Crowd watches Mercury Astronauts, Lieutenant Commander Carpenter and Lieutenant Commander Glenn, along with other project personnel as they depart Grand Turk Island for return to Cape Canaveral, Florida. Scott Carpenter and party board a Military Air Transport Service C-121G (Constellation) airplane. Photographers and spectators take pictures of astronauts. View from cockpit of the C-121 on its takeoff roll.
Final stages in the Battle for Peleliu,Pacific Islands. U.S. Marines attack concealed Japanese gun positions with machine guns,hand grenades and explosives. U.S. Marines capture pillboxes and dugouts. U.S. Marines conquer Peleliu. U.S. Marines salute American flag. (World War II period).
The growth of Okinawa Island and its economy during the United States occupation period after World War II. American soldier attend to the injuries of a small Japanese girl. Japanese children watch a medic treat another girl. Lumber yard having stacks of wood. American troops with Japanese men, build houses. View of railway bridge. Two Japanese talking.
Postwar development of Okinawa Island in the Pacific Ocean. Views of recently constructed schools, power stations, and aerial view of the Fukuji Dam and water reservoir. Children play in school. Two young Japanese boys read. Power generators and electric power lines, poles, and cables. Water reservoir site. Transport boxes are offloaded from ship on to a dock at harbor. Passengers board an All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing aircraft at Naha Airport. A Japan Airlines aircraft taking off from the airport and seen in the sky overhead. People walking in front of the Naha Airport terminal. Buses, trucks, and car traffic on roads and streets of Okinawa city. Men at work at a construction site.
Okinawa Island after its return to Japan. A Japanese couple fish in the sunset. Japanese man fishes with a fish net. American man pays in Japanese Yen to a cashier. The cashier hands a package to the man. Japanese flag in flagpole. American man talks to a Japanese police officer. Sign in Japanese writing in background. American family stand outside Japanese shop. American man plays golf. A Japanese salaryman walking on the street. American and Japanese men play baseball. American crowd watches the baseball game. American Air Force enlisted woman and a Japanese woman come out of a car.
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