Medical aid to wounded natives in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. Natives walk past a hospital truck parked on the road. United States Marines carry wounded on stretchers. The marines put the stretchers into back of the truck. A boy on a stretcher. Tents with open flaps in the background. A woman bandages the hand of a small boy with an amputated arm.
Natives of Okinawa in Pacific Theater. A native man stands with a cart in the background. Natives wash clothes. Native women work in groups. Fences and trees in the background. Tents erected on the hilly terrain. A native woman carries firewood in a basket on her head.
Natives of Okinawa in Pacific Theater. Native men and women sit around a table. Cards kept on the table. They sort through the card file. The men and women write with pencils. Native houses in the background.
Native children of Okinawa in Pacific Theater. Children receive dancing instructions. Children stand in formation and learn dancing steps. A dance instructor stands in the front. Hilly terrain in the background. Buildings in view.
The U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force participate in practice exercises at Okinawa in the Pacific Theater. Amphibious assault on a beach. Practice exercises of United States troops. Landing crafts advance towards the beach. Aircraft strafe the beach. Amphibious tanks (LCVTs) make initial assault. Marines and soldiers establish beach head. Specially equipped trucks lay road mats on the sandy beach. Mechanized equipment rolls on the road mat. A floating pier is put into operation. Tanks, amphibious DUKWs and troops advance inland. A helicopter evacuates the simulated wounded.
Major General Alexander Vandegrift, USMC, who, as Commanding General of the 1st Marine Division, also commanded other U.S. military units involved in the invasion of Guadalcanal in World War 2. He discusses those joint U.S. military operations. The U.S. Destroyer, USS Blue (DD-387) seen bombarding Guadalcanal.A B-17 bomber overhead. U.S. Marines decend rope net into landing craft of the attack transport, USS George Clymer (APA-27), later seen with the USS Harry Lee (APA-10) and numerous landing craft around them. A landing craft from the Harry Lee arriving and Marines jumping out. Many U.S. troops wading ashore from landing craft. Troops carrying supplies ashore. Officers salute as American flag is raised on rugged flag pole. Numerous Japanese prisoners of war marching and in outdoor confinement. Japanese prisoners being processed. Japanese soldier using shoe clamps to quickly climb a tall palm tree. Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr.decorating a flyer with the Distinguished Flying Cross. View of the medal.Halsey decorating marines, including Major General Alexander Vandegrift, USMC, seen wearing the Navy Cross. Sign on palm tree reading: "Hospital Station C-1-Med." Wounded inside hospital tent. Troops gathered for religious service. U.S. troops dug in and moving along jungle path. Fallen Japanese soldiers on shore of Guadalcanal.Smoke rising from Japanese bombing of Henderson Field and construction continuing with heavy equipment. A B-17 bomber landing on the field. Names on B-17s at the field, including: "Spook," "Leis-Lady,"and "Boomerang." A Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft taking off from Henderson field. Film concludes with parade of warships and overflight of warplanes (including a biplane).
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