Refine Your Search

Takabanare Island Okinawa Ryukyu Islands 1945 stock footage and images

- Showing 19 to 24 of 9327 results
163rd Liaison Squadron Stinson L-5B airplanes fly low over the water, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.

Casualties on litters are removed from an ambulance and taken into tents at field hospital identified by Red Cross flags. Casualties are placed aboard Stinson L-5B planes. L-5Bs flying low over the water pass over warship. Planes are flown by pilots of the 163rd Liaison Squadron.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, June 21
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052273
U.S. Army 77th Division soldiers capture an island of the Ryukyu Islands during the Ryukyu campaign of World War II.

U.S. Army 77th Division in the Ryukyu Islands during the Ryukyu campaign of World War II. Columns of soldiers move along a road among fields. A squad leader fires into a cave. Men of the 136th Engineers rush with guns up a hill. The men move past a Shinto shrine. A soldier fires flame throwers on Japanese caves. A soldier blows a bugle and other soldiers salute during a flag raising ceremony on the first Japanese homeland island taken. A soldier tries to hoist the flag and other soldiers stand around and salute. The flag being raised and hoisted. The troops salute.

Location: Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070071
T-21 75mm and 57mm recoilless rifles are fired at Japanese caves in Okinawa.

T-21, 75mm and 57mm recoilless rifles are test fired in Okinawa. Gun crew firing rifle on Japanese caves in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. Crew places shells in rifle. Explosions from shells fired on hills. Trooper fires 57mm rifle from behind embankment. (World War II period).

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052940
Okinawa is heavily shelled with guns and rockets and then invaded by 10th Army and the Marine 3rd Amphibious Corps.

Invasion of Okinawa. Animated map shows Aka, Tokashiki, Geruma, Hokachi and Okinawa Island. After six days of U.S. troops landing on Kerama Island, 10th Army attacks south west coast of Okinawa. Heavy naval shelling of Okinawa. U.S. fleet shelling coasts of Okinawa. Heavy explosions in Okinawa throw billows of smoke in air. U.S. fleet underway at sea approaching Okinawa. Rocket ships firing rockets on enemy positions on coastline. U.S. amphibious landing on beaches after heavy shelling. (World War II period).

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052928
U.S. Army 77th Division soldiers fire artillery in the Ryukyu Islands during the Ryukyu Campaign of World War II.

U.S. Army 77th Infantry Division in the Ryukyu Islands during the Ryukyu campaign of World War II. A vessel underway at sea en route to the Ryukyu Islands. Soldiers on landing crafts underway at sea. LVTs (Landing Vehicle Tracked) heading towards a beach. Soldiers unload from the LVTs onto the beach. 305th and 306th Infantry Regiment troops advance inland from the beach. A small building. Two soldiers holding guns in prone position on the side of a road. The soldiers fire the guns. The troops load and fire 81mm mortars. The soldiers standing behind shut their ears. The troops load a 155mm howitzer. The howitzer is fired from beneath a camouflage net. One of the soldiers shuts his ears. Several soldiers on a field and LVTs parked in view. Men of the 304th Field Artillery Battalion remove shells from cartons.

Location: Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070070
A typhoon strikes the U.S. Navy fleet withdrawing after the attack on Aguni island, in the Pacific during World War II.

U.S. Navy fleet struck by a typhoon in the Pacific, during World War II. The rough waters in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Navy fleet of ships hit by a typhoon. The typhoon hits the U.S. Navy 3rd Fleet withdrawing after the attack on Aguni in Ryukyu Islands in Okinawa. Water lashes at the bow of a battleship. Large waves crashing over bow of ships. Battleships, cruisers, destroyers and carriers in the fleet hit by the typhoon. Water rushes on the bow of USS Massachusetts. Men on the ship trying to cover themselves. The seaplanes on the stern of the ship being wrecked on the launcher. The battleship USS Indiana fighting the heavy waters. The aircraft carriers damaged by the typhoon. The bow of the cruiser USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) in the rough waters. The seaplanes on the stern being damaged. One of the aircraft on the launcher. Other seaplanes being wrecked on the deck. The bow of the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Bennington get damaged. An aircraft takes off from the deck of the carrier which is undamaged. The steel girders supporting the deck is bent and twisted. The carrier at sea. The wrecked section hangs over the bow. The crew of the carrier USS Hornet repairing the damage. The aircraft wreckage on the stern of the ship. Men inspecting the damage. Navy personnel on parts of the aircraft on the deck. The USS Pittsburgh being brought by a Navy tug to a floating dry dock for repair. A temporary step bow is put on USS Pittsburgh.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054937
<< Previous | Page: 1 ... 4 5 6 ... 1555 | Next >>