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Operation of United States Coast Guard in Okinawa and Iwo Jima, Pacific Theater during World War II

Overseas activities of United States Coast Guard in World War 2. February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines invade Iwo Jima in Pacific Theater. Naval guns and aircraft bombard Iwo Jima. Mountain in the background. Aircraft in flight. Marines and Coast Guardsmen aboard landing craft. Marines landing on Iwo Jima under heavy Japanese fire. Destroyed landing ships litter water's edge. Marines hunkered down and treating wounded, under fire. LSTs and other ships at established beachhead. Vehicles drive onto beach. April 1, 1945, Marines attack Okinawa. Navy warships bombard Okinawa with heavy guns and continuous rocket fire. Beachhead is established against light resistance. Japanese kamikaze aircraft attack American invasion ships. Several ships are hit and sunk. Surviving sailors are helped aboard rescue boats. Antiaircraft fire from American ships fills sky with smoke and flak. A kamikaze aircraft crashes in the sea. Sky filled with American bombers. Aerial view of Atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki Japan on August 9, 1945. Raising American Flag on Japan homeland.

Location: Iwo Jima
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041749
Chaplain conducts V-E (Victory in Europe) Day thanksgiving services in Okinawa, Japan during World War II.

Group of U.S. servicemen gather in clearing near tents, on Okinawa, on May 8, 1945, (V-E Day) to give thanks for the end of World War 2 in Europe. One sits at improvised organ. Officers and a Chaplain enter the clearing. The Chaplain distributes song sheets and conducts the group in singing, accompanied by organist. At conclusion, all turn and face the American flag flying nearby.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034707
Casualties loaded onto USAAF L-5B aircraft on Okinawa, Japan.

Air evacuation of Marine causualties from narrow road, near Itomen, Okinawa in 1945 during World War 2. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron lands and rolls past a flagman and waiting Marine with arm wound. View of the wounded Marine inside the airplane. View of L-5B taking off and in flight. Wounded Marine on stretcher being loaded on an L-5B and another being taken, on a stretcher, from an ambulance and loaded on an L-5B.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, June 13
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042093
Wounded U.S. Marine being loaded aboard Stinson L-5B aircraft in Okinawa, Japan during World War II.

Air evacuation of wounded United States Marines on Okinawa in June, 1945. U.S. Army Air Forces Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron landing in front of camera as signalman waves flags. Identifiable aircraft serial numbers are: 44-17001, 44-17308, 44-17005. An ambulance pulls up on the field in front of a Red Cross tent and men carry a woundedsoldier on a stretcher towards L-5B aircraft. Another Marine on litter being loaded aboard an aircraft. More L-5B's taxi into position and take off. Identifiable tail numbers 44-17320, 44-16938. One aircraft, only identifiable with the number '80' on the tail is a Marine Corps OY-1 (L-5B).

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, June
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077470
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, where the bulls fight each other and the men in the ring serve only as handlers, not toreadores or matadors. 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'. A white man talking with a local woman in front of a club. Narrator notes "the price is high if you don't use reasonable care" (alluding to caution about sexually transmitted diseases).

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1972
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025528
General Shepherd, Commodore Herbert B Knowles and Marine officer William T Clement aboard ship.

U.S. Naval and Marine officers aboard ship following L-Day landings of Okinawa. General Shepherd, Naval officer Commodore Herbert Bain Knowles and other Marine officer William Tardy Clement (Assistant Commanding Officer of 6th Marine Division, and in 1945 commanded Third Fleet landing force in Japan) look over bridge of ship. They turn around and pose. General Shepherd speaks.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, April 4
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052858
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