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U.S. 6th Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, 22nd Marines aboard LST-952 (Landing Ship Tank) heading for Okinawa.

U.S. amphibious landings following L-Day in Okinawa. View of a destroyer underway heading for Okinawa. A small sailboat passes by in the foreground. U.S. 6th Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, 22nd Marines aboard LST-952 (Landing Ship Tank). Marines clean bayonets, moving around on deck of ship. Deck crowded with men.

Date: 1945, April 4
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052859
U.S. 24th Army Corps advance and 382nd Infantry, 96th Division battling at Table Top Ridge in Okinawa.

U.S. troops in Okinawa. U.S. 24th Army Corps in Southern Okinawa Front. Troops move along road. Troops along pathway in fields. U.S. artillery shells enemy positions on hills. American plane overhead makes bombing run. U.S. 382nd Infantry Regiment fighting at Table Top Ridge. Artillery fires enemy positions on side of hill. Japanese fortifications on hillside are shelled by artillery. Medics carrying wounded across field. Wounded man transferred on weasel. U.S. 381st Infantry Regiment supported by tanks fighting in Kakzu Ridge. Tanks fire at enemy positions on hills in the background. U.S. troops rushing toward deep fortified cave on hillside. Japanese coming out of cave. Flamethrower firing flames on hillside Japanese caves. Troops of 382nd Infantry, 96th Division advance up hill and place bombs in Japanese caves clearing pillboxes. Explosion in cave. (World War II; WWII;World War 2; WW2)

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052934
Japanese defenses and fortifications consisting of caves, entrenchments, pillboxes, tank traps and gun emplacements in Okinawa.

Japanese fortifications in Okinawa. Search for Japanese snipers in Okinawa. U.S. troops with rifles along road. Japanese caves are inspected by troops. Troops around concrete pillbox. Various Japanese dig in positions and entrenchments. Tank traps and gun emplacements inspected by U.S. troops. (World War II; WWII;World War 2; WW2)

Date: 1945
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052936
United States 10th Army tanks advance on hilly terrain in Okinawa.

United States 10th Army in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. U.S. tanks advance on hilly terrain in Okinawa. A marine tank blown by a Japanese land mine. U.S. Marines try to rescue the crew on the tank. The ammunition in the tank catches fire. U.S. Marines fail to rescue the crew. Japanese installations destroyed. Fire and smoke rises due to explosions. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053646
Native children learn judo and dancing in Okinawa, Pacific Theater.

Native children in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. The children are given dancing instructions in a field. A native woman instructs a boy in dancing. Boys are given instructions in judo. Okinawa policeman in background. Boys practice judo. Wounded children lying down. Several children sit on a bench. A small boy with an taped amputated hand sits on a bench.

Date: 1955, March 9
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054145
U.S military police move civilians from a village to make way for an air base, in Okinawa, Japan

Evacuation of civilians of Okinawa in Japan, during World War II. U.S. MP (Military Police) in a village in Okinawa in Japan. The MP with the civilians in the streets of the village. The Military Police and a few women of the village in front of a hut. The women talk among themselves. One of the MP wearing a helmet with the letters 'MP' written on it. Civilians, holding their belongings, walk through the streets of the village. The civilians in an enclosure. The MP among a group of civilians which includes elderly people. The civilians are helped into trucks by the MP for evacuation from the village which is to be the site of an air base. A group of civilians walk with their belongings. Trucks loaded with civilians in view. The trucks move along the road. Huts on the side of the road. A Military Police on a horse leads a large group of civilians who carry their belongings. Children in the group. The group walks along the road. The group includes men, women, children and elderly people.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054926