Air evacuation of wounded United States Marines on Okinawa by U.S. Army Air Forces Stinson and Marine Corps L-5B during World War 2. Various shots of wounded Marines on stretchers being unloaded from the aircraft. Medics carrying the wounded to a medical hut. More L-5B's land. A wounded Marine on a stretcher in L-5B talks with men standing outside the aircraft. Marine on a stretcher being released from harness. Stretcher being carried to a medical tent. L-5B aircraft lands and a litter case being loaded aboard Red Cross ambulance. Ambulance pulls away from the area with tents in the background. A shark-mouthed Marine Corps OY-1 (Stinson L-5) with the name "Budie" painted on nose taxis in front of camera. Identifiable aircraft in this clip: 44-16952 and 44-17164, both of the 163rd Liaison Squadron.
Japanese hill fortifications in Senaga Shima, Okinawa, Japan. An Allied soldier near a cave with rubble spread on the ground. Destructed houses in a village east of Naha, Okinawa. A damaged naval defense gun. Entrance of a cave blocked by rubble. A hole in the hill. (World War II period).
U.S. 6th Marines 2nd Battalion 22nd Regiment advances in Okinawa. Marines gathered all around. Shells burst on hill. Marines move towards top of hill in large scattered groups. Smoke rises all around. Marines dig a trench at the foot of ridge as the ridge burns. Some Marines in the trench. Marines move through fields and trench. They fire at the ridge in background. (World War II period).
U.S. 22nd Marine Regiment cross Asakawa River and going south into ASA, Okinawa. Several Marines move up behind an embankment cautiously. They advance on embankment. Marines advance on the double along road. Truck and some more Marines come up in the far background. They advance along side of large embankment and pass by a dead body of Japanese soldier. (World War II period).
6th Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps at Naha, Okinawa in Japan during World War II. A United States M4A3 Sherman tank moves along a road. A Marine walks beside the tank. Marines fire from behind a stone wall. M4A3 Sherman tank fires at the enemy. Damaged Okinawan houses in the village. The Marines advance on hilly terrain and fields. One of the Marines throws satchel charge outside a Japanese cave entrance. Smoke and explosion at the cave. 6th Marine Division Corps fire rifles.
U.S. Army 77th Division in the Pacific Theater during the Ryukyu campaign of World War II. U.S. Army Chaplain Corps flag and the U.S. flag on a ship's mast. Men of U.S. Army 306th Infantry Regiment relaxing on the deck of a ship. One of the men playing a guitar. A group of men playing with a monkey. A man getting a haircut. The men cleaning rifles. Ration distributed to the soldiers on the deck. The soldiers seated on the deck. An officer briefing the soldiers using a relief map of Okinawa. A Chaplain conducts religious services aboard the ship. The soldiers stand with joined hands.
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