Postwar development of Okinawa Island in the Pacific Ocean. Views of recently constructed schools, power stations, and aerial view of the Fukuji Dam and water reservoir. Children play in school. Two young Japanese boys read. Power generators and electric power lines, poles, and cables. Water reservoir site. Transport boxes are offloaded from ship on to a dock at harbor. Passengers board an All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing aircraft at Naha Airport. A Japan Airlines aircraft taking off from the airport and seen in the sky overhead. People walking in front of the Naha Airport terminal. Buses, trucks, and car traffic on roads and streets of Okinawa city. Men at work at a construction site.
An animated graphic shows Japanese gunfire near Naha Okinawa pounding U.S. 420th Group artillery positions located on the small island of Keise Jima, near Okinawa. Also animation of the U.S. Navy Cruiser, USS Tuscaloosa, moving in to provide counterfire against the Japanese batteries near Naha. Actual views of U.S. warships provide a floating mobile artillery to support the ground troops. U.S. warships firing on Japanese artillery positions near Naha Airfield. Details seen include: At time 00:36, the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40, firing a starboard mounted 5in/25cal gun. Time 00:40 is the battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43 in camouflage Measure 32v1, Design 1D earlier in the war. Time 00:52 is the battleship USS Colorado, BB-45, in camouflage Measure 32, Design 3D and in the background is the battleship USS West Virginia in camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D. (World War II period)
T-21, 75mm and 57mm recoilless rifles are test fired in Okinawa. Gun crew firing rifle on Japanese caves in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. Crew places shells in rifle. Explosions from shells fired on hills. Trooper fires 57mm rifle from behind embankment. (World War II period).
Underwater coral reefs in the western Pacific Ocean. Sunlight falls on coral reef. Stone carvings from Okinawa. Depictions show the early history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands. Paintings show ships in sea, men rowing boats, men in Okinawa gathering wood, Japanese writing, battle scene and fighter jets.
Operations of the U.S. troops at the Shuri Line in Ryukyu Islands during the Battle of Okinawa. Sherman tanks of the U.S. Army 706th Tank Battalion, 77th Division advance. They use flame throwers and advance against the side of a hill. Smoke rises due to bombardment. (World War II period).
Operations of the U.S. troops at the Shuri Line in Ryukyu Islands, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa. Soldiers of the U.S. 307th Regiment, 77th Division move across the field. They pass a knocked-out U.S. tank.
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