Conclusion of U.S. Navy film: "The Fleet That Came To Stay." Role of U.S. Navy Task Force 58 during the Battle of Okinawa in World War 2. Opening scene shows ships of U.S. Task Force 58 sitting quietly in waters off the coast of Okinawa, at dawn on May 9, 1945 (VE Day, when Germany surrendered in World War 2). Navy gunners silhouetted against the dawning sky, with twin Bofors anti-aircraft guns. Silhouettes of sailors on early watch. Sailor walks on deck of an aircraft carrier, past parked aircraft with it's vertical stabilizer and rudder riddled to pieces by battle damage. An escort aircraft carrier and other warships are moving slowly past the camera ship. A Douglas Dauntless dive bomber, with only a pilot aboard, takes off from a carrier. Brief glimpse of aircraft taking off from a carrier. It carries a bomb underneath and displays the number 559 on its engine cowling. Numerous American aircraft in formation above the ships. A U.S. cruiser in the distance. Closeups of capital ships bombarding Okinawa with heavy guns and firing anti-aircraft guns at attacking Kamikaze aircraft. Black flak clouds and tracer bullets tracking a Japanese aircraft. Superimposed slate tallies Japanese aircraft shot down: "May 12th: 164; June 3rd: 45; June 6th: 67; June 8th: 30." A kamikaze plane crashes into the sea. Gunners aboard a ship work rapidly to reload their anti-aircraft guns. View of an Essex class aircraft carrier with black flak clouds overhead. Two explosions occur next to her hull. Gunners track a Japanese airplane flying low and close to the water. It passes a carrier and crashes into the sea. More views of sailors working at speed to reload anti-aircraft guns. A sailor firing an Oerlikon 20 mm cannon from gun position atop a ship. A Kamikaze plane crashes at starboard side of an Escort aircraft carrier underway. View of long line of anti-aircraft guns firing simultaneously from beside the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Smoke rising from the firing and driven by the wind. Remains of a Kamikaze plane spin down amid black flak clouds, after being hit by gunfire. Slate reads "4232 (Japanese planes shot down). The spinning pieces of the Kamikaze plane crash well clear of a nearby Cleveland class light cruiser. Against background of flak filled sky, a Washington Post Newspaper headline is shown reading: "Navy Okinawa Casualties near 10,000 and 2 more ships hit."
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.
Air evacuation of Marine causualties from narrow road, near Itomen, Okinawa in 1945 during World War 2. 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.
A World War II-era film shows Americans realize their war time obligations after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Fall of Corregidor in the Philippines. Crowds watch a marching band and newly enlisted soldiers in parade. A smiling woman waves at the marching soldiers. Women in car watch the parade. Tents in camp. Soldiers perform mass calisthenics and train with outdated tanks. Enlisted men learn how to fire machine guns and mortars. United State Army soldiers board a ship for their deployment. A ship departs for the Philippines. Soldiers arrive in the Philippines, a United States commonwealth in Asia. Japanese bombers drop bombs over Pearl Harbor. Civilians running on the streets during a Japanese aerial bombardment. United States Navy sailors firing machine guns and howitzers from ships. A ship explodes from Japanese bombing. A little girl runs to her father washing the car to tell the news about Pearl Harbor. The little girl runs across the street to tell her neighbor about Pearl Harbor. A woman writes a letter. A woman bakes a cake. People leave a church after service. An American soldier is shot by Japanese soldiers in the Philippines. A man reads a telegram. The man drives to a farm house, accompanied by a church minister. The man and minister tell the elderly couple living in the farm that their son was killed in action. Women selling war bonds on the street. A man silences his alarm clock and goes back to sleep. Cars racing on the street. Soldiers and civilians evacuating Manila. Japanese bombardment of Manila. A girl turns on the radio before Christmas dinner. Men and women congratulates a woman outside a law office. More civilians receive telegrams. Dead soldiers in the battlefield. A woman opens the Bible and writes the names of the dead. United States soldiers retreat in the Fall of Bataan. A woman shakes her head in disbelief after being told of a rumor her son was killed in action. A man hangs the United States flag on his porch. A bomb explodes near a makeshift tent hospital. Woman fixes bed. A woman eating on the dinner table alone. A soldier swats a mosquito from his neck in the Philippines. Forlorn men and women. Soldiers fighting in Corregidor. Soldiers surrender to the Japanese forces at Corregidor. A captured American soldier harasses a Japanese soldier while frisking him. He was apprehended by Japanese soldiers on guard. Despondent American civilians struggling after the Fall of Corregidor. A man despondently smokes from his bed. A depressed woman struggles to cut vegetables. A doctor treats civilians for shock and depression. A baseball game. A horse race. Boys playing on the beach. United States and Filipino soldiers march with United States and Philippine flags. People line up for blood donations. Civilians donate old rubber and hats. Men line up to punch their time in at work. Boys helping on the farms. Male teachers volunteer to fix civilians’ appliances and cars after school. A welder working at the shipyard. Civilians walking instead of using cars. An Allied plane landing. A woman sewing. A man opens a package of binoculars. People line up to buy war bonds. A majorette leading a marching band. Newly enlisted men with suitcases marching in parade.
United States soldiers marches south from Tarlac to Manila. Map of Manila and surrounding areas under United States control. A sign reads “Notice Picking Flowers Absolutely Prohibited”. Soldiers crawl under a hole in a wall. A skirmish rages in Rizal Stadium (Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, Adriatico St, Malate, Maynila, 1004 Kalakhang Maynila), a baseball stadium in Malate, Manila. Soldiers walk on streets of Escolta, the business district of Manila. They cross a bridge on a waterway. They move on tanks in the field and pass a waterway. Animated map shows captured parts of Manila. Soldiers in the wrecked stadium. Soldiers fire in the stadium. Smoke arises due to firing. Soldiers walk on the street and engage Japanese in house to house and building to building combat. Buildings and houses along the sides of the street. Soldiers fire on the street. Wounded Japanese soldier looks up at U.S. Army soldiers near a street corner. Wounded American soldiers carried by fellow U.S. soldiers to safety and to receive first aid from medics. Dead soldiers on the street. Dead body of a soldier near barricades. (World War II period).
Medical troops arrive at the South bank of Pasig River to help the wounded Filipino victims of the Battle of Manila during World War II. Chinese and Filipino Red Cross workers carry away wounded natives in boats with Red Cross flag across the Pasig River. Dead bodies of murdered Filipino civilians in the rubble. A weakened Augustinian priest receives, and eats food given by Santa Clara monastery nuns. Red Cross workers carry Allied and Filipino wounded from Santo Domingo Church. Filipino refugees travel by small banca boats on the Pasig River.
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