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Role of U.S. Naval gunfire during battle for Okinawa, Japan, during World War II.

U.S. Battleships cruising in the Pacific. Close views of naval 16 inch gun barrels Navy personnel manning radio and teletype stations in a communications center. (They are shirtless, presumably due to heat.) They receive a message from General Bruckner, Commanding General, 10th Army, to Admiral Turner, Commander, Task Force 51,praising the active naval support for U.S. ground forces. Scenes of naval gunfire of all types. Japanese aircraft hit and burning. A U.S. naval 16 inch gun fires and produces a giant smoke ring.

Date: 1946, April
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027754
Rescued sailors are helped aboard a U.S. Navy submarine near Okinawa, Japan.

Clinging to pieces of wreckage, exhausted sailors from a destroyed allied vessel are helped aboard an United States Navy submarine by fellow sailors. Some of the rescued sailors are covered in oil. Sailors from the submarine help the victims aboard while others post lookout with binoculars. Some victims are wearing flotation bladders and float on wooden planks. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038713
An injured civilian being treated by a U.S. Marine corps medical team during American occupation of Okinawa in World War 2

Okinawan woman pulls a cart containing an injured man to a United States Marine Corps infirmary seeking help. Marines hasten to transfer the wounded man onto a litter and bring him into an infirmary tent.. A Marine Corps doctor and medical team examines the wound on the man's leg inside a tent, and they treat him. Another injured person is seen being brought on a stretcher to the infirmary tent.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 5 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051474
Resettling local people in housing. A Marine road grader used on construction site.US occupation of Okinawa in World War 2

American marines transport Okinawan women and children in jeep and trailer to a housing area.They park and women and children climb down. United States Marines in the housing area.. Women with baggage on their heads. Two old women outside a house. A bearded old man. Local people move down a dirt road.. Marines in a field as a road grader levels the field. A tent in the background.

Date: 1945, April 14
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051477
Marines of U.S. 1st Marine Regiment escort civilians across fields in Okinawa.

Marines of U.S. 1st Marine Regiment walk along path with civilians . Back view of Marines with rifles walking along road. Hills in background. Civilians escorted by Marines.

Date: 1945, April 4
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052780
A Marine of U.S. 6th Marine Division stands near a captured Japanese suicide boat loaded with 300 lbs picric acid in Okinawa.

A Japanese suicide boat loaded with 300 lbs picric acid. A ruler is laid on the motor of the boat to show measurement. Marine of 6th Marine Division stands near the Japanese boat. Wooded area in background. Various equipment shown.

Date: 1945, April 6
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052782