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Men look through binoculars and LCIs underway at sea off the coast ofOkinawa, Japan during World War II.

Activities aboard United States landing crafts off the coast of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) underway. Men look through binoculars. Gun crew on the bow of an LST ( Landing Ship Tank ).

Date: 1945, February 9
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070706
Strafing attacks on Okinawa by American aircraft during World War II.

From gun camera, tracers are seen as pilot strafes a compound on the ground in Iwo Jima, during World War II. He fires at installation on tip of island, with water on two sides. Smoke rises from the exploding rounds on the ground.

Date: 1945
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040494
Native children learn judo and dancing in Okinawa, Pacific Theater.

Native children in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. The children are given dancing instructions in a field. A native woman instructs a boy in dancing. Boys are given instructions in judo. Okinawa policeman in background. Boys practice judo. Wounded children lying down. Several children sit on a bench. A small boy with an taped amputated hand sits on a bench.

Date: 1955, March 9
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054145
Japanese Kamikaze aircraft attacking U.S. Navy Task Force 58, off Okinawa

Japanese Kamikaze aircraft attacking U.S. Navy Task Force off Okinawa. They attack the Aircraft Carriers Yorktown, Saratoga, and Bunker Hill. View from deck of USS Yorktown (CV-10) as a kamikaze, hit and on fire, passes directly overhead and crashes into the ocean just past the deck of the ship. The Saratoga is hit by 4 Kamikaze planes. 315 U.S. sailors and airmen killed or wounded. Crew struggles to control fires and damage and care for casualties.The attacks continue and the USS Bunker Hill is struck by 2 Kamikaze planes and is on fire with heavy smoke rising as crew tries desperately to save her. The Cruiser Wilkes-Barre comes alongside spraying fire hoses in attempt to aid the stricken Bunker Hill. The Wilkes-Barre passes respirators to firefighters aboard the Bunker Hill. Rescue boats pick up crewmen who were blown off the deck into the sea. 373 killed and 264 injured on the Bunker Hill. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027694
A United States KC-135 A aircraft at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan during the Vietnam War.

United States aircraft at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan during the Vietnam War. United States KC-135 A aircraft being refueled at the air base. An airman climbs up a ladder and gets into a plane. KC-135 A aircraft lined up on the flight line with vehicles moving about the air base in the foreground. A sign reads ' Warning Restricted Area '. A KC-135 A aircraft taxis. Another aircraft in the foreground.

Date: 1965, December
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042557
Native women work with wheat grinder and pound grain with hammers in Okinawa, Pacific Theater.

Natives work on various jobs in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. A woman works with a wheat grinder. Several other women stand around the trees. An old man with a barber. Several men and children sit in a group. Two women pound grain with hammers. Wheat is beaten inside a grinding pot by hammers. Two women work with a grain sifter.

Date: 1955, March 9
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054144