Invasion of Okinawa. U.S. naval bombardment and shelling on island of Kerama Group. Landing crafts approach beach. LVT (Landing Vechicle, Tracked) move up on beaches of Okinawa. Infantry and armored units of 3rd Battalion, 305th Regimental Combat Team takes immediate control of beach. Japanese caves shelled by howitzers. Troops move inland and further. Japanese suicide boats along caves on shores destroyed by bombs. Japanese interpreter of U.S. 3rd Battalion asks a Korean prisoner in fields to go up hill and persuade Japanese for surrender. Korean prisoner goes towards hill with truce flag. Japanese come down hill. Surrendered Japanese Lieutenant sits with other men. American forces land on another island on Kerama Group where no civilian or military resistance is encountered. Flag rose at captured island. Troops plan invasion of another Kerama Group island aboard ship. Invasion of Tokashiki by U.S. troops. U.S. troops move inland. Troops march along trails on hill. Wrecked houses in town. Officer looks through binocular from observation post. American flag behind officer. Artillery fire shelling Tokashiki Island. (World War II period).
U.S. 1st Battalion 1st Marines fight the enemy in Okinawa. Marines on Shark Tooth Ridge fire Thompson sub machine gun and M-1 from prone position down hill towards cave. Marines fire bazooka rocket launcher over crest of hill. Marines fire bazooka over edge. They reload bazooka and another round is fired. (World War II period).
Natives talk to a group of U.S. Marines in Okinawa. Native talks with Lieutenant Colonel John C Miller, Junior. Group of Marines listens. Face of native. Face of native with beard. Face of native with beard and mustache. Native civilians talk to Marines. Marine interpreter. Marine interpreter talks to native civilian. Native civilian talks to Marine. (World War 2 period.)
Okinawa Island after its return to Japan. A Japanese couple fish in the sunset. Japanese man fishes with a fish net. American man pays in Japanese Yen to a cashier. The cashier hands a package to the man. Japanese flag in flagpole. American man talks to a Japanese police officer. Sign in Japanese writing in background. American family stand outside Japanese shop. American man plays golf. A Japanese salaryman walking on the street. American and Japanese men play baseball. American crowd watches the baseball game. American Air Force enlisted woman and a Japanese woman come out of a car.
Whole invasion fleet of the United States Navy in Operation Iceberg, or more famously known as the Battle of Okinawa, during World War 2. Invasion fleet includes amphibious ships such as patrol craft coastals, submarine chasers, battleships, LST (or Tank Landing ships), LCI (Landing Craft Infantry), Landing Ship Medium (LSM), and landing craft such as the LCVP (landing craft vehicle personnel boat or also known as the Higgins boat). A Tank Landing ship sails towards Okinawa, showing military equipment and with sectional pontoons attached to its side. Landed amphibious LVT tanks and Higgins boats on the Green Beach in Okinawa’s coast. Invasion fleet in Green Beach in Okinawa during Battle of Okinawa. Okinawa Island in smoke from Battle of Okinawa off green beach.
Activities of the U.S. 1st and the 6th Marine Divisions on the island of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. United States Marines advance on the battlefield. Tank flame throwers and prosperous grenades being used to fire cane fields driving Japanese from cover. Japanese prisoners of war stripped to their loincloths, being marched to the stockade. United States flag flies from a pole after capturing the island of Okinawa.
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