U.S. 1st Marine Division fights the enemy near Shuri Castle, Okinawa. Marines examine the wreckage of burial vaults and barracks near Shuri Castle. Marines walk around debris. Wrecked automobile in background. Marines examine it. Ford V8 insignia on the same. Marines walk through debris and clean Japanese rifle. U.S. Grumman TBF flies overhead and drops parachute supplies. (World War II period).
U.S. 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, fights Japanese in Okinawa. Demolished U.S. tanks along rocky terrain. Smoke rises from the side of hill in background. Wreckage of tanks scattered all over. (World War II period).
Japanese prisoner talks to U.S. Marine in Okinawa. Flame thrower is fired into mouth of cave. Marines guard entrance of cave. Japanese prisoner in shorts is allowed to enter cave to persuade other Japanese soldiers inside cave to surrender. Blast in woods. More blasts in cave. Japanese prisoners are questioned by Marine. Prisoners get down from jeep. They are questioned by intelligence officer. Wounded Marine is carried on stretcher by Marines. Prisoner used as interpreter is hollering into mouth of cave. Two Marines followed by a prisoner climb hill. They advance toward cave. Japanese prisoner advances downside of hill to mouth of cave while Marines with BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) stands above him on hill. (World War II period).
U.S. 3rd Battalion 22nd Marines on Okinawa island during World War 2. Two Marines carry elderly woman out of hut and lay her down. They gently lift the aged woman onto door which is used as a stretcher. Woman is carried away. Marines set down stretcher holding two women, one suffering from malnutrition. View of legs of other young woman, whose right leg is bent and cut off at ankle by the Japanese when she refused to fall back with the retreating Japanese soldiers. Cameraman slate at end of clip states "Okinawa: Civilians taken from hiding places - When the Japs told them the oncoming Marines would kill them."
U.S. tanks of 69th Tanks Battalion fire guns at ridges in Naha, Okinawa. Several Marines of 6th Marine Division assist a wounded Marine. They dug in behind a tank. Smoke arises from the hills in the background. 30 caliber air cooled machine gun crew fires over embankment. Marine feeds belt of 30 caliber machine gun as it is fired at hills in the background. Other Marines look on, all behind embankment. Tracers fired at hills. Marine fires 30 cal Thompson Sub-Machine gun over embankment. Marines behind a tank, one is using walkie-talkie. Explosions and smoke on hills in the background. Marine kneels in the foreground. Other Marines run in crouched positions. (World War II period).
U.S. amphibious landings following L-Day in Okinawa. View of a destroyer underway heading for Okinawa. A small sailboat passes by in the foreground. U.S. 6th Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, 22nd Marines aboard LST-952 (Landing Ship Tank). Marines clean bayonets, moving around on deck of ship. Deck crowded with men.
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