Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies for Ronald Reagan in the United States. West face of the United States Capitol. North Portico of the White House. Ceremony at the White House for participants. Shows Vice President Walter Mondale, his wife, Vice President elect George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara Bush, arriving at the White House. Senator Howard Baker and Representative Robert Michael including members of Joint Congressional Committee arrive to attend the Inaugural Ceremony. President Jimmy Carter, and his wife, Rosalyn Carter, President elect Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Reagan, are accompanied to the White House by Senator Mark Hatfield and Chairman of the Inaugural Committee. Guests arriving on Presidential platform in the Capitol include Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General David Jones, General Omar Bradley, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller and the families of the President, the President elect, the Vice President and the Vice President elect. The procession of official guests begins with House of the Representatives led by Dean of the House Jamie Whitten. Nation's Governors begin to enter the Inaugural site. Senator Strom Thurmond and procession of Senators enter.
United States Navy sailors held prisoners by Japanese in Bilibid, Philippines. Liberated prisoners stand outside the prison building after three years in captivity. Very thin men reduced to living skeletons. Men hold glass jars with daily ration of several ounces of grain. Several men starved to death. View of grave markers at cemetery in the prison camp. Liberated Naval men return to United States. Huge crowd in San Francisco holds a parade and welcomes the heroes of Bataan and Corregidor. Corporal Jolly receives an award. (World War II period).
Okinawa Operations in Pacific Theater. United States Marine units and 24th Army Corps advance on the island. A horse carrying loads. A tank advances on the road. Troops on hilly areas. Snipers are routed from the hills with pack charges and small arms fired. Smoke and explosions. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers. Corpses are inspected. A wounded Japanese soldier crawls from his nest. U.S. Marines and Japanese troops fight in a wooded area. (World War II period).
Okinawa Operations in Pacific Theater. United States Marine units and 24th Army Corps advance on the island on the hilly areas. U.S. Marines and Japanese troops fight in a wooded area. Fire and smoke. Dead soldiers in view. Troops advance on field. Soldiers carry wounded on stretchers. An airstrip is captured and graded. Dummy tanks inspected. Troops find a 'Baka' kamikaze suicide aircraft (Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, rocket powered, human-guided attack aircraft). Obsolete planes on airstrip. Airstrip is repaired. Aerial view of airstrip. Tanks advance on roads. Suicide boats are inspected. They are packed with explosives and intended for launching down hill into a stream. (World War II period).
Okinawa Operations in Pacific Theater. United States Marine units and 24th Army Corps advance in the villages of the islands. Tanks advance in the villages. Marines approach houses in the village. Fire and smoke due to explosions. Dead bodies lay on ground. Fire rises up from the houses in village. Flame throwing Sherman tanks set huge fires throughout the villages. Aerial view of smoke over island. Infantry equipped with small arms, and some seen carrying flame thrower packs on their backs, moving along the roads without heavy support weapons. U.S. Douglas TBM Avenger aircraft drop food, water and munitions by parachute to Marines climbing hills. Smoke protects Marines crossing an open slope. (World War II period).
Okinawa Operations in Pacific Theater. United States Marine units and 24th Army Corps advance on Naha. Two Marines look at a map and confer. Artillery and dive bombers bombard Naha. U.S. Marines occupy the outskirts. Fire and explosions. Heavy black smoke rises up. Bombing at day and night. Tank guns fired. Firing in streets of Naha. (World War II period).
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