The operations of the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Soldiers fire guns. Okinawan refugees emerge from huts and clog a road. Jeeps, tanks and amphi tracks ford a stream. Bulldozers repair a road.
The operations of the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa during World War II. Marines advancing along the way. Snipers are routed from the hills with pack charges and small arms fire. Dead body of soldiers lying on the street. Smoke arises due to firing.
U.S. Flamethrower tank shooting flames into coastal ridge line of Shima, Okinawa. Fire and smoke spreads quickly. Billows of smoke rise from fire in woods. (World War II period).
U.S. convoy heading towards Okinawa shores for 'L' Day Landings. Battleship underway at sea. Battleship with tenders around it. LST convoy in harbor. Observer with binoculars. Three Marines sit in landing boat. LVT come in. One LVT passes away. LCVP go ashore. Marine with his head lowered in LST.
U.S. Naval and Marine officers aboard ship following L-Day landings of Okinawa. General Shepherd, Naval officer Commodore Herbert Bain Knowles and other Marine officer William Tardy Clement (Assistant Commanding Officer of 6th Marine Division, and in 1945 commanded Third Fleet landing force in Japan) look over bridge of ship. They turn around and pose. General Shepherd speaks.
Okinawan civilians surrender to U.S. soldiers of 32nd Infantry, 7th Division in Okinawa. Okinawan civilians coming out of cave on hillside. Nisei interpreter interrogates civilian. Soldier checks belongings of civilian. (World War II period).
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