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U.S. run Kadena Airbase in Okinawa

Kadena Airbase in Okinawa, Japan. B-29 'Superfortress' bomb North Korean targets during the Korean War. United States Air Force crew carrying bombs in Okinawa. Aerial view of Kadena Airbase. Sign on building reads 'Headquarters Marine Amphibious Force and 3D Marine Division' and 'United States Marine Corps Camp Courtney'. View of harbor at Okinawa. Sign reads 'Fleet Activities,Ryukyus U.S. Naval Air Facility'. U.S. airplanes at Kadena Airbase. C-5 Galaxy U.S. transport airplane parked at Kadena. Airplane maintenance by U.S. Airmen. Housing, club and supermarket at Kadena. A doctor treats a child as mother stands nearby. Women shopping at the commissary and exchange in Kadena Airbase. Children playing on the playground of a school inside Kadena Airbase. A sign reads “The friendlist people on Okinawa Welcome You To Koza City”. View of Koza City, Okinawa. An American woman with his son, shop in a departmental store in Koza City.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1972
Duration: 4 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025527
Responsibilities and duties of U.S. military personnel towards United States Kadena air base and Japan

Responsibilities and duties of U.S. military personnel towards United States Kadena Air Base and Japan. Okinawa-The Keystone of the Pacific. Two U.S. military enlisted technicians look through a microscope. A nurse talks to a technician. U.S. Airmen work in an airplane maintenance shop. A female U.S. military NCO works as a clerk. U.S. Airman works on a machine and spray paints a missile. U.S. Airman drives a truck in Air base. Pilot puts on mask in cockpit of his fighter plane. A U.S. transport airplane takes off from the air base. A U.S. fighter jet takes off from air base. View of sunset on Okinawa.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1972
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025531
Aerial view of atomic bomb explosion from Test Baker, Operations Crossroads

Cluster of test vessels is seen in aerial view of test site, Bikini Atoll, Pacific Ocean. Baker test, of underwater atomic bomb explosion, in Operation Crossroads, July, 1946. Detonation produces large shock wave, water column and mushroom cloud.

Location: Bikini Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 25
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027688
United States nuclear testing: Test "Dog" of Greenhouse series. This is a Mk 6 strategic bomb at Enewitak Atoll.

Cloud filled sky is golden as test bomb burst begins for test "dog" in the Greenhouse series of atomic tests in 1951, on the Enewitak Atoll in Pacific Ocean.Test of Mk 6 strategic bomb. Emitted light obscures vision for several seconds. Shock wave, fireball, and plume follow.

Location: Island Runit Enewitak Atoll
Date: 1951, April 7
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027689
Japanese Kamikaze aircraft attacking U.S. Navy Task Force 58, off Okinawa

Japanese Kamikaze aircraft attacking U.S. Navy Task Force off Okinawa. They attack the Aircraft Carriers Yorktown, Saratoga, and Bunker Hill. View from deck of USS Yorktown (CV-10) as a kamikaze, hit and on fire, passes directly overhead and crashes into the ocean just past the deck of the ship. The Saratoga is hit by 4 Kamikaze planes. 315 U.S. sailors and airmen killed or wounded. Crew struggles to control fires and damage and care for casualties.The attacks continue and the USS Bunker Hill is struck by 2 Kamikaze planes and is on fire with heavy smoke rising as crew tries desperately to save her. The Cruiser Wilkes-Barre comes alongside spraying fire hoses in attempt to aid the stricken Bunker Hill. The Wilkes-Barre passes respirators to firefighters aboard the Bunker Hill. Rescue boats pick up crewmen who were blown off the deck into the sea. 373 killed and 264 injured on the Bunker Hill. (World War II period).

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027694
U.S. Fifth Fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Spruance, and U.S. 10th Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Buckner, at Okinawa.

Animation depicts Okinawa in relation to Japan,China,Formosa, and Iwo Jima. U.S. landing ships carry troops who make unopposed landings on Hagushi beach, U.S. troops seen pouring ashore. Okinawa. Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner and Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance seen looking through binoculars on the deck of the amphibious Flag Ship. U.S. troops move inland from the beachhead. Troops bringing bulldozers. U.S. Army infantry of the 24th Corps engage Japanese defenders. Japanese bunkers and fortifications seen. U.S. battleships and other ships of the line begin intense bombardment of the Japanese positions. U.S. army artillery fire large howitzers. U.S. tanks attack Japanese fortifications and suffer counter fire. Troop movements impeded by rain and mud. Ammunition ships seen having difficulty on congested beachhead. Animation shows how naval gunfire could successfully strike Japanese fortified positions because of flat trajectory. (World War II period).

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, April 1
Duration: 5 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027747
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