Activities of U.S. 1st Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan on the L+1 Day during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. U.S. 1st Marine Infantry Division seated on the ground. United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General Pedro Augusto Del Valle and U.S. Colonel Robert O. Bare talk to each other. Del Valle smokes. A situation map shows advance.
Activities of natives and U.S. 1st Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan on the L+3 Day during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II An elderly Okinawan civilian sitting outside a shack. A group of Okinawan natives. U.S. 1st Marine Division personnel move into a barbed wire perimeter. Huts in an area. A marine leads a group of natives near village of Sobe. The Okinawans being led into fields. A 105mm howitzer in the background. The marine and the natives walk. An LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked). Marines and natives move past silhouette against the sky. Okinawan natives proceed on a road. A prisoner with hands in air. The marine and the group of natives, mostly women, walk on the road. The marine throws a grenade in a cave.
Rehabilitation of natives in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. Native children on the ground. Beans are crushed in a mortar and a pestle. A woman cleans beans by shaking it. The woman cooks food. Two men work with a phonograph record player to start it. Dick Miller, an American actor, with Okinawans in a compound. A native man performs a dance in the compound. The natives watch him.
Activities of U.S. 1st Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. A man of U.S. 1st Marine Division leads a group of Okinawan prisoners. The prisoners march to a stockade. Another man follows at the end of the group.
U.S. 1st Marine Division with the Okinawans in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. A U.S. Marine inspects ruins near Gushikawa. Natives including men, women and children. A U.S. marine smokes with an Okinawan civilian citizen. Young boy shows a Japanese military hat insignia that he is wearing. A Military Police personnel carries a balancing pole holding two buckets on his shoulders. The children carry balancing poles with two buckets. Views of the children.
Assault made by elements of U.S. 10th Army consisting of 1st Marines, 6th Marines, 77th and 96th Army Divisions on Shuri line in Okinawa during World War 2. Two Marines firing Browning M1919, 30 caliber machine gun, from a high ridge. Several bodies of fallen Japanese soldiers. (Note: Marine firing the machine gun might be Robert Sorensen, C-1-5 USMC, who recalled being filmed on Okinawa, while firing his machine gun from a ridge at about this date. He served with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division.)
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