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Battle for Okinawa in World War II
U.S. infantry and M4 Sherman tanks move against heavily fortified Japanese positions on Okinawa during World War 2. American soldiers use flame throwers to dislodge Japanese defenders. Two soldiers run as an explosion occurs behind them. U.S. artillery firing from under camouflage netting. Glimpse of soldier walking past a burning building. Okinawan women and children seek refuge behind the U.S.Tenth Army lines. A soldier carries a naked baby to safety. View of Okinawan refugees (Ryukyuan people), mostly women and children and some old people, seated together where they are to be cared for by the Army's Civil Affairs Command. Wounded American soldiers being placed aboard a U.S. Air Transport Command C-47 aircraft number 42-72383. Change of scene to the battlefield where a U.S. Army soldiers throw a hand grenades that explode on a Japanese caves. A Japanese soldier is shot as he stumbles out of his cave. Another Japanese soldier is take prisoner. U.S. soldier fires his rifle and a Japanese soldier falls to the ground. Scenes shift to the sea off of Okinawa, where a Benson-Livermore class destroyer is seen under a sky full of black flak clouds. Closeup of the destroyer. A Japanese aircraft is shot down as it flies toward a U.S. New Orleans class heavy cruiser. It crashes into the sea near another U.S. capital ship. An attacking Japanese plane is shot down by anti-aircraft fire and crashes into the sea. More flak filled skies and bombs exploding along with machine gun fire raking the waters. Anti-aircraft tracer bullets firing from ships. A Japanese plane hit, is burning, and then explodes in the air. A Douglas dauntless aircraft lands on an aircraft carrier. Another aircraft doesn't make it to the carrier, and ditches in the water nearby. The pilot is seen standing on the plane's right wing, awaiting pick up. A Navy F4U Corsair plane approaches its carrier to land but loses control and crashes into the carrier's island. Firefighters direct streams of water on it's burning wreckage.
United States 7th Infantry Division soldiers in trench look through binoculars while advancing in Okinawa.
United States 7th Infantry Division soldiers advance on Okinawa Island. Smoke arising from explosions in field. Soldier looks through binoculars. Soldiers in a trench. Aircraft in flight over Okinawa. (World War II period).
U.S. 3rd Battalion 22nd Marines carry civilian women on stretchers, Okinawa.
U.S. 3rd Battalion 22nd Marines on Okinawa island during World War 2. Two Marines carry elderly woman out of hut and lay her down. They gently lift the aged woman onto door which is used as a stretcher. Woman is carried away. Marines set down stretcher holding two women, one suffering from malnutrition. View of legs of other young woman, whose right leg is bent and cut off at ankle by the Japanese when she refused to fall back with the retreating Japanese soldiers. Cameraman slate at end of clip states "Okinawa: Civilians taken from hiding places - When the Japs told them the oncoming Marines would kill them."
U.S. Army Infantry troops advance during Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, during World War II. U.S. Infantry troops advance on a road lined by trees on an island of Okinawa. White phosphorous bombs exploded to signal aircraft. A U.S. soldier among the bushes. White flares and fumes rise from the wooded region due to white phosphorous bombs bursts. U.S. soldiers advance among the bushes and trees. Positions in the jungle sprayed with flamethrowers by the soldiers.
U.S. aircraft bombard the city area and the Japanese fleet off the coast of Okinawa, Japan.
A U.S. air attack on Okinawa, Japan during World War II. U.S. aircraft from U.S. Navy ship USS Yorktown (CV-10) attack Okinawa. An aerial view of the air attack. Japanese ships underway at sea. The aircraft in flight over the target area. Aerial and gun camera views as aircraft drop bombs and strafe the Japanese fleet. Smoke rises as the ships explode due to the bombardment. Splashes in the water. The aircraft bombard the city area on the island. Smoke rises due to bombardment in the city.
U.S. ground forces fight their way across Okinawa against stout Japanese resistance
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).
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