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Smoke arises due to the bombing of Sugar Loaf Hill in Okinawa, Japan.

The operations of the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Marines relives army units South of Naha. Rockets, artillery and dive bombers bombard 'Sugar Loaf Hill'. Smoke arises due to bombardment.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051662
General Simon Bolivar Buckner is killed in Japanese firing during the Battle of Okinawa, Japan.

Activities of the U.S. 1st and the 6th Marine Divisions on the island of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Marines advance towards south of Naha. Firing and bombarding in the battlefield. Soldiers fire guns from tanks and advance. Smoke arises due to bombardment. Marines fire rifles. Marines carry the dead body of General Simon Bolivar Buckner on a stretcher after he was killed in Japanese firing.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051719
Tourist attractions and activities on Okinawa Island

Tourist attractions on Okinawa Island. Map of Okinawa showing Kadena and Nago City on it. View of Northern part of Okinawa. Jungles and beaches on the Island. Various monuments in Okinawa. Japanese fishermen on boats. American couple visits castle ruins. An American woman plays with her children on the beach. Japanese crowd watch bullfight between two bulls. Todoroki falls in Okinawa. Soldier in camera shop holding a 35mm still camera and pointing it toward the filming camera. Neon signs of Okinawa nightclubs such as 'Club Night Queen’, ‘New Star' and 'Club 7'.

Date: 1972
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025528
U.S. 1st and 6th Marine Divisions advance towards the front mopping up Japanese hillside positions during the Battle of Okinawa.

Activities of the U.S. 1st and the 6th Marine Divisions on the island of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A 'Corsair' plane lays a smoke screen to protect tanks crossing a field north of Naha under Japanese artillery fire. Marines follow tanks across an open terrain. They mop up Japanese hill side positions after the flame thrower tanks have been used.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051714
U.S. 22nd Marine Regiment dig on side of road in ditches and advance in crouched positions in Naha.

U.S. 22nd Marine Regiment fights with enemy during their advance in Naha, Okinawa. Marines move along road towards city in the background. They dug on hill position, look at mountain in the background. Marines dug in on side of road in ditches. All of them stand up and keep on advancing on the double towards the background. They dug in near hut on side of hill. Marines slowly advance. Some advance in crouched position. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, May 11
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052883
U.S. Army aircraft bombing raids on Japanese cities in 1945, and atomic bomb explosion in World War 2.

Air raids and battle in Japan in the Pacific Theater near the end of World War II. A cemetery of United States military soldiers in the Japanese island of Okinawa. Memorial at the tombstone of Ernie Pyle built by the 77th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. General Doolittle, General Henry Arnold, General George Kenney, General Ennis Whitehead and other officers during a discussion standing before planes at the 48th Air Force base. B-29 aircraft advances towards Tokyo. Bomber aircraft dropping of a number of guided bombs towards their targets. Targets include Japanese airplane factories, shipping industry, military supply chains in the cities of Tokyo, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Okinawa and Yokohama of Japan. Explosion and smoke arises from bombed targets on ground. Aerial wide and close up views of a B-29 aircraft in flight. Narrator notes that on 05 August 1945, Enola Gay, a B-29, carries the atomic bomb and flies towards Hiroshima. Atomic explosion seen signifying the one in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, but narrator indicates the image seen is that of the first atomic explosion (the Trinity test) during on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico. Immense cloud of smoke and light. This atomic explosion, the first of two, was pivotal in compelling Japan to surrender unconditionally. Film ending includes public service announcement image "Buy Bonds. Hold Them. Victory Loan."

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036307