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The Okinawans wash their legs and eat food in Ishikawa, Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa.

Living conditions of the Okinawans in the town of Ishikawa, Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. Natives seated in a compound outside huts. Fully clothed men wash their legs and faces. A man distributes food to the natives. The natives walk away with the food. They sit on the ground and eat the food. An aircraft in flight.

Date: 1945, April 15
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070760
U.S. Marines transport artillery from ships through amphibious vehicles to Red Beach in Okinawa during Battle of Okinawa.

United States Marines aboard landing ships near Red Beach, Okinawa. The ramp door of the ship opens in the water. Tanks and other artillery being transported from the ship by amphibious vehicles onto Red Beach. The amphibious vehicles in water advancing towards the beach. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April 4
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063800
View of traffic on a highway in Okinawa,Japan

View of traffic on a highway in Okinawa. Cars and transport trucks on street. Street signs '50','Stop','Drive Safely The Life You Save May Be Your Own'.

Date: 1972
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025525
Carrier aircraft and Destroyers with other ships underway and en route to Okinawa during World War II.

The U.S. Task Force advances in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A starboard bow of a ship cut water and en route to Okinawa. U.S. Navy F-6s parked on the deck of a ship. A carrier aircraft underway. A heavy cruiser underway. A aircraft carrier underway. Another carrier aircraft underway with the U.S. task force. Carrier aircraft and Destroyers with other ships underway and en route to Okinawa. A large number of ships off the beach of Okinawa. The Landing Ship Tanks underway. Clouds in the background. A Landing Craft Infantry underway. U.S. Infantrymen aboard the landing craft. Aerial view of invasion fleet off the coast. A U.S. aircraft, flying in support of assault forces, flies low over beachhead. Area covered with smoke from shore explosions.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069335
Elements of the U.S. fleet attacked by Japanese Kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa during World War II

A U.S. Benham class destroyer underway off Okinawa, in the company of the battleship, USS Missouri (BB-63) seen in background, during World War 2. Next, many low bursts of flak are seen above the water as U.S. ships fire at attacking Japanese Kamikaze aircraft. Both the destroyer and the battleship are firing anti-aircraft weapons. At TC: 00:53, a Japanese Kamikaze is seen striking the Missouri's starboard side,aft, exploding and raising a large black cloud of smoke. Scene shifts to more battles between U.S. warships and attacking Japanese planes. At TC: 01:36, the USS Enterprise (CV-6) is seen underway with smoke rising from her starboard aft, following a strike by a Kamikaze.

Date: 1945, April 11
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029818
Operation of United States Coast Guard in Okinawa and Iwo Jima, Pacific Theater during World War II

Overseas activities of United States Coast Guard in World War 2. February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines invade Iwo Jima in Pacific Theater. Naval guns and aircraft bombard Iwo Jima. Mountain in the background. Aircraft in flight. Marines and Coast Guardsmen aboard landing craft. Marines landing on Iwo Jima under heavy Japanese fire. Destroyed landing ships litter water's edge. Marines hunkered down and treating wounded, under fire. LSTs and other ships at established beachhead. Vehicles drive onto beach. April 1, 1945, Marines attack Okinawa. Navy warships bombard Okinawa with heavy guns and continuous rocket fire. Beachhead is established against light resistance. Japanese kamikaze aircraft attack American invasion ships. Several ships are hit and sunk. Surviving sailors are helped aboard rescue boats. Antiaircraft fire from American ships fills sky with smoke and flak. A kamikaze aircraft crashes in the sea. Sky filled with American bombers. Aerial view of Atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki Japan on August 9, 1945. Raising American Flag on Japan homeland.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041749