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Natives crush beans by using a mortar and a pestle, look at it and clean it in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa.

Activities of natives in Okinawa, Japan on the L+2 Day during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. The natives seated on the ground. A man smokes a cigarette. U.S. 1st Marine Division personnel talk to the man. The natives crush beans by using a mortar and a pestle. Women look at the container of beans. Hand work on the container of beans. A fully clothed Okinawan washes his feet in a pool. The Okinawan cleans food by shaking it in air.

Date: 1945, April 3
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070754
U.S. 1st Marine Division, 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment comes inland from a beach in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa.

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. U.S. 1st Marine Division, 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment walks across a field. Communication men lay wires. An LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked). Men go up a ridge. Marines come inland from Red Beach. The beach in the background.

Date: 1945, April 4
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070757
Men weigh beans on weighing scales and prisoners in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa

Rehabilitation of natives in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. Men weigh beans on weighing scales. A truck loaded with prisoners. Natives stand beside the truck. The prisoners are led by a U.S. soldier. The prisoners seated on the ground. Okinawan prisoners walk on a road. The prisoners get off the truck. They are seated on the ground. U.S. soldiers stand beside them. A man walking in a street. The prisoners walk on a road. Barbed wire perimeter in the background.

Date: 1945, April 16
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070758
Marines of U.S. 1st Marine Division walk near rice paddies in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa.

Activities of U.S. 1st Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. A family leaves the town with their belongings. Natives walk across rice paddies. Marines walk near the rice paddies. The rice paddies in Tengan area. A man watches through binoculars.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070762
The Okinawans walk down a road near Nakagusuku Bay in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa.

Activities of the Okinawans in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. Rice paddies in the area. Mountains and Nakagusuku Bay in the background. The Okinawans walk down a road near the bay.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070763
The 1944 U.S. Presidential election in World War II

On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.

Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072899