USS Tirante SS-420 submarine in Japan. An enlisted boy looks through binoculars aboard the submarine. Commander George L Street III looks through binoculars. Japanese junk boat (Wasen) comes alongside the USS Tirante. Japanese fishermen brought aboard the USS Tirante. The junk boat is set on fire. Junk boat burns at night. Periscope view of large rock extending above water.
Damaged hangars on captured airfield in Okinawa. Airfield and hills in the background. Damaged hangar at airfield. L-5 aircraft takes off from airfield. Jeep and tanks parked in the foreground.
U.S. amphibious landings in Okinawa following L-Day. View from moving Landing craft. Landing craft goes toward island, firing guns. Shell bursts and smoke on island in the background. Gunner on LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) fires machine gun toward island. LVT A-4 comes up on beach. Line of Marines crouched down and moves cautiously through hilly terrain. They dug in on hilly, red terrain. Marines run across hilly terrain. Marine with wounded arm runs back toward beach with weapon in hand. (World War II period).
U.S. Admiral Mark L. Bristol arrives in Constantinople, Turkey by train. Admiral Bristol, the U.S. High Commissioner in Turkey during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, talks to Turkish officials at the train station. Officials approach a parked car.
U.S. Navy Admiral Mark L. Bristol in Constantinople, Turkey (officially referred to as Istanbul since 1930), during the occupation of Istanbul, under his role as High Commissioner from the U.S. Admiral Bristol, in mufti, poses with members of the U.S. staff and Turkish officials and several ladies, near the U.S. Embassy. Admiral Bristol poses with unidentified official.
U.S. Admiral Mark L. Bristol and a delegation of U.S. Navy military leaders and civilian leaders attend an event at Zappeion Exhibition Hall (or Zappion Hall), which was serving as an orphanage for displaced Armenian children after the Armenian genocide and unrest during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. Bristol's coalition had been shuttling Greek and Armenian refugees from Turkey to the temporary orphanage in Zappeion Hall. Sign above Hall exterior entrance is partially covered but words "Neareast Relief Zappion Orphanage" can be seen. Bristol's group ascends the steps with an honor guard of children in various uniforms snapping to attention as they ascend. Admiral Bristol and other U.S. dignitaries walk up the steps of the building and enter. Flags at the entrance of the building. In the Hall, a band of the U.S. Navy plays music. Group of children of the orphanage is seen in the background behind the band. Admiral Bristol and other U.S. military and civilian dignitaries seated in the main hall watching the band or a presentation.
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