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LST (Landing Ship, Tank), LVT (Landing Vehicle, Tracked) and LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) approach shores.

U.S. convoy heading towards Okinawa shores for 'L' Day Landings. Battleship underway at sea. Battleship with tenders around it. LST convoy in harbor. Observer with binoculars. Three Marines sit in landing boat. LVT come in. One LVT passes away. LCVP go ashore. Marine with his head lowered in LST.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, April 1
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052848
General Shepherd, Commodore Herbert B Knowles and Marine officer William T Clement aboard ship.

U.S. Naval and Marine officers aboard ship following L-Day landings of Okinawa. General Shepherd, Naval officer Commodore Herbert Bain Knowles and other Marine officer William Tardy Clement (Assistant Commanding Officer of 6th Marine Division, and in 1945 commanded Third Fleet landing force in Japan) look over bridge of ship. They turn around and pose. General Shepherd speaks.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, April 4
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052858
Nisei interpreter interrogates Okinawan civilian who just came out of cave on hillside, Okiawa.

Okinawan civilians surrender to U.S. soldiers of 32nd Infantry, 7th Division in Okinawa. Okinawan civilians coming out of cave on hillside. Nisei interpreter interrogates civilian. Soldier checks belongings of civilian. (World War II period).

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, June 17
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052971
Aircraft of U.S. Navy Task Force 58, attack Kyūshū and Japanese home islands in World War II

Film begins showing sailors in battle gear manning Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns beside flight deck of U.S. aircraft carrier, during World War 2. Navy Task Force 58 ships, including a cruiser and another aircraft carrier, are seen in background. View of SBD Douglas Dauntless dive bomber aircraft on the carrier flight deck. Two have engines running.The rest are parked with wings folded. Next, the aircraft are seen being sent on takeoffs by a white shirt on deck. The number "6" on her flight deck identifies her as the USS Enterprise (CV-6). Views of several Douglas Dauntless aircraft flying off her deck. Glimpse of aircraft in formation from a different Squadron, bearing checkerboard markings on their tails. View from above of 5 of the aircraft in formation above the sea below. Gun camera views of U.S. aircraft strafing Japanese ships. One explodes in fireball and smoke. U.S. aircraft firing rockets that strike a Japanese carrier, setting it on fire, and causing an escort ship to blow up. Task Force 58 aircraft strike Japanese coastal installations and strafe several Japanese airfields destroying parked Japanese aircraft. They attack industrial sites causing fires and explosions. Gun cameras show aircraft firing rockets at lines of communication and striking more Japanese airfields.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072094
American flag raising ceremony at Southern Tip of Okinawa in Mobuni Town.

Flag raising ceremony at Southern Tip of Okinawa in Mobuni Town. United States Marine Corps General Roy Stanley Geiger and Marine Corps Major General Pedro del Valle talk. (Del Valle was the first Hispanic to reach the rank of Lieutenant General). Major General Del Valle talks with other Marines. Other Marines in the background. Sign shows where the last organized stand was made by the Japanese Army on Okinawa. Two Marines in the background. General Stilwell talks to an officer. General Stilwell climbs up hill. Mountains in the background. Raising flag at spot where Japanese made last stand on Okinawa. Marine General Stillwell and Marines saluting as flag is raised on top of flag pole. Marines salute. Sign in the foreground. Flag on the flag pole. General Stilwell addresses a group of Marines at flag raising ceremony. General Stilwell and Marine Generals talk. General Geiger talks with General Del Valle and another General at ceremony. General Stilwell and Marine General talk. Group assembled around flag pole.

Location: Mobuni Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, June
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052903
Bombs burst and smoke columns rise in Shuri, Okinawa, Japan.

Bombs burst and smoke columns rise in Shuri, Okinawa, Japan. Shoreline of Okinawa. Sunken ship close off shore superstructure projects above water. (World War II period).

Location: Shuri Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, May 10
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034737
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