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Development of Okinawa Island in the years after World War II

Postwar development of Okinawa Island in the Pacific Ocean. Views of recently constructed schools, power stations, and aerial view of the Fukuji Dam and water reservoir. Children play in school. Two young Japanese boys read. Power generators and electric power lines, poles, and cables. Water reservoir site. Transport boxes are offloaded from ship on to a dock at harbor. Passengers board an All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing aircraft at Naha Airport. A Japan Airlines aircraft taking off from the airport and seen in the sky overhead. People walking in front of the Naha Airport terminal. Buses, trucks, and car traffic on roads and streets of Okinawa city. Men at work at a construction site.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1972
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025526
United States warships and the Marine Corps raid and gain control over the Japanese island of Okinawa, during World War II.

The Pacific Theater of World War II during the Year 1945. Attack on Japanese island of Okinawa by the United States Military. United States Navy ships from the sea, launch a number of missiles towards the islands. The missiles traverse an aerial route and destroy the target Japanese positions. United States Marine Corps raid the island moving in amphibious landing tractors towards the island. Battle between Japanese soldiers and U.S. Marines. American flag hoisted on Okinawa after four months of furious battle. Officials and Military Commanders and soldiers salute the flag.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036365
Reversion of Okinawa Island to Japan after WW2

Okinawa Island after its return to Japan. A Japanese couple fish in the sunset. Japanese man fishes with a fish net. American man pays in Japanese Yen to a cashier. The cashier hands a package to the man. Japanese flag in flagpole. American man talks to a Japanese police officer. Sign in Japanese writing in background. American family stand outside Japanese shop. American man plays golf. A Japanese salaryman walking on the street. American and Japanese men play baseball. American crowd watches the baseball game. American Air Force enlisted woman and a Japanese woman come out of a car.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1972, May
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025530
Japanese gun turrets and shore defense on Okinawa beach as seen from unsteady boat, USS Solace sails near coast of Okinawa, green beach, during Battle of Okinawa in WW2

Various views of the Japanese shore defense gun turrets, wreckage of pillbox nests and Japanese shore defense, and the coast of Okinawa Island in the Battle of Okinawa during World War 2, all seen from a moving boat. United States Hospital Ship, USS Solace (AH-5), sails close to coast of Okinawa Island as part of the invasion fleet for the Okinawa Gunto. As the USS Solace sails near the coast of Okinawa, an APA ship can be seen sailing from a distance.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, April 1
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078452
Okinawa is heavily shelled with guns and rockets and then invaded by 10th Army and the Marine 3rd Amphibious Corps.

Invasion of Okinawa. Animated map shows Aka, Tokashiki, Geruma, Hokachi and Okinawa Island. After six days of U.S. troops landing on Kerama Island, 10th Army attacks south west coast of Okinawa. Heavy naval shelling of Okinawa. U.S. fleet shelling coasts of Okinawa. Heavy explosions in Okinawa throw billows of smoke in air. U.S. fleet underway at sea approaching Okinawa. Rocket ships firing rockets on enemy positions on coastline. U.S. amphibious landing on beaches after heavy shelling. (World War II period).

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052928
Native inhabitants of Okinawa Island, Japan

Native people of Okinawa. Japanese civilians walk on road. An elderly Okinawan woman on the street. An Okinawan man carrying a pole. A young woman and elderly woman in front of a watch shop. A Japanese woman in kimono crosses the road. Smiling Japanese men and women. Okinawan farmer tending pineapple plants. American Air Force non-commissioned officers at a bank window in a bank. Car drives past "Italian Food House Restaurant." An Okinawan farmer works on a farm. A Shinto shrine in Okinawa. Two Japanese men fix a boat. Truck at a mining site. Public union demonstrators demonstrate against United States air bases carrying red flags with Japanese writing.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1972
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025529
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