Natives of Okinawa in Pacific Theater. Native men and women sit around a table. Cards kept on the table. They sort through the card file. The men and women write with pencils. Native houses in the background.
Native children of Okinawa in Pacific Theater. Children receive dancing instructions. Children stand in formation and learn dancing steps. A dance instructor stands in the front. Hilly terrain in the background. Buildings in view.
The U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force participate in practice exercises at Okinawa in the Pacific Theater. Amphibious assault on a beach. Practice exercises of United States troops. Landing crafts advance towards the beach. Aircraft strafe the beach. Amphibious tanks (LCVTs) make initial assault. Marines and soldiers establish beach head. Specially equipped trucks lay road mats on the sandy beach. Mechanized equipment rolls on the road mat. A floating pier is put into operation. Tanks, amphibious DUKWs and troops advance inland. A helicopter evacuates the simulated wounded.
Japanese prisoners in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. U.S. troops with a few Japanese prisoners of war (POW) on a marshy area. The group of prisoners on a field. The prisoners, in columns, are marched along a path in the area by U.S. troops. Wounded prisoners in the group. Two men on either side of a wounded prisoner, help him to walk. A few prisoners seated on the ground. Partially clothed prisoners, in a group on the field. A few of them standing and a few others sitting. The prisoners moving in columns. Two U.S. soldiers attend to a wounded prisoner. A few wounded prisoners are loaded into a truck. A jeep loaded with prisoners. The vehicles move along a road and reaches the war prisoners' enclosure.
Japanese prisoners of war (POW) in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. The Japanese prisoners are brought in trucks by the U.S. troops to be enclosed. The Japanese prisoners get out of the trucks. U.S. soldiers search the prisoners. The prisoners are sent into a wire-fenced enclosure. The prisoners inside the enclosure. Small tents inside the enclosure. The prisoners standing in lines. The corpsmen attending to wounded prisoners who are laid on stretchers. A prisoner's eye being bandaged by two other prisoners.
Japanese prisoners in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. The Japanese prisoners of war (POW) preparing soups in huge vessels. The soup being served to the prisoners. The prisoners, in a wire-fenced enclosure, having the soup from bowls. The prisoners unloading ration supplies from trucks. The prisoners stacking the supplies inside the enclosure. 'PW' written on the backs of the prisoners' shirts. Prisoners working on the wire fencing. Prisoners having bath. Prisoners having haircut and shave. Two prisoners playing a board game. A few prisoners watching. Two prisoners engaged in a judo match. Other prisoners seated in a circle around them and watch as they wrestle.
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