Okinawa Operations in Pacific Theater. United States Marine units and 24th Army Corps advance on the island. A horse carrying loads. A tank advances on the road. Troops on hilly areas. Snipers are routed from the hills with pack charges and small arms fired. Smoke and explosions. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers. Corpses are inspected. A wounded Japanese soldier crawls from his nest. U.S. Marines and Japanese troops fight in a wooded area. (World War II period).
Okinawa Operations in Pacific Theater. United States Marine units and 24th Army Corps advance on the island on the hilly areas. U.S. Marines and Japanese troops fight in a wooded area. Fire and smoke. Dead soldiers in view. Troops advance on field. Soldiers carry wounded on stretchers. An airstrip is captured and graded. Dummy tanks inspected. Troops find a 'Baka' kamikaze suicide aircraft (Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, rocket powered, human-guided attack aircraft). Obsolete planes on airstrip. Airstrip is repaired. Aerial view of airstrip. Tanks advance on roads. Suicide boats are inspected. They are packed with explosives and intended for launching down hill into a stream. (World War II period).
Okinawa Operations in Pacific Theater. United States Marine units and 24th Army Corps advance in the villages of the islands. Tanks advance in the villages. Marines approach houses in the village. Fire and smoke due to explosions. Dead bodies lay on ground. Fire rises up from the houses in village. Flame throwing Sherman tanks set huge fires throughout the villages. Aerial view of smoke over island. Infantry equipped with small arms, and some seen carrying flame thrower packs on their backs, moving along the roads without heavy support weapons. U.S. Douglas TBM Avenger aircraft drop food, water and munitions by parachute to Marines climbing hills. Smoke protects Marines crossing an open slope. (World War II period).
Okinawa Operations in Pacific Theater. United States Marine units and 24th Army Corps advance on Naha. Two Marines look at a map and confer. Artillery and dive bombers bombard Naha. U.S. Marines occupy the outskirts. Fire and explosions. Heavy black smoke rises up. Bombing at day and night. Tank guns fired. Firing in streets of Naha. (World War II period).
The inaugural ceremony for the newly elected U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in Washington DC. The Army, the Navy, the Marines and the National Guard units march along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. Buildings on either side of the road. Large crowds gathered on the sides of the road. A military band and horsemen in the parade. People along the streets watch. A few of them hold American flags. The band playing instruments marches along the street. The 32nd President of United States Franklin Roosevelt. The U.S. flag.
Scenes of Nazi atrocities at the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany at the time of its liberation in World War 2. Bodies of victims heaped in railroad cars at railroad siding in Dachau, Germany. Faces and emaciated bodies of dead prisoners. Stack of naked bodies at crematorium. Huge pile of prison uniforms, hats, and other type of clothing removed from dead. Railroad car filled with bodies of victims. The United Nations flags over liberated camp. Flags of France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, England and United States.
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