Invasion of Aguni Jima in Okinawa, Japan. Bombardment on an open area by the Allied Troops. Smoke rises up in the sky. Japanese civilians gathered, including children, who are carried by adults. (World War II period).
Air evacuation of casualties on Okinawa, Japan by the 163rd Liaison Squadron. L-5B's land on extremely narrow road near Itoman, which serves as a makeshift airstrip. First Medical Battalion personnel place U.S. Marine causualties aboard Stinson L-5B aircraft. Several L-5Bs are seen landing, having wounded placed on board, and taking off again. Man with signal flag directs landings. One L-5B is seen being pushed backwards to the patient loading area, after landing. A wounded Marine on a stretcher is fastened into the aircraft which then takes off.
Air evacuation of Marine causualties from narrow road, near Itomen, Okinawa in 1945. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron lands and rolls past a flagman and waiting Marine with arm wound. View of the wounded Marine inside the airplane. View of L-5B taking off and in flight. Wounded Marine on stretcher being loaded on an L-5B and another being taken, on a stretcher, from an ambulance and loaded on an L-5B.
Evacuation of Japanese causalities in Okinawa, Japan. Two United States Navy Corpsmen walk in a village and enter a hut. They carry out an old Japanese woman from the hut. They place her on a wooden pallet and carry her away for medical aid. Marines carry a Japanese girl with her foot cut off by the Japanese. Girl talks to the Marines.
Allied troops in Okinawa, Japan. Anti tank tracers fire against hill side and smoke rises. A tree in the foreground as a tank burns. Explosion of fire bombs o hillside. Smoke rises from the hill. United States marines in tank destroyers move away. (World War II period).
Japanese equipment in Senaga Shima, Okinawa in Japan. A view of the huts in the area. A man measures a 6 ½ inch Japanese shell case with a scale. He holds a detonator and a nose fuse cap.
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