U.S. Third Fleet underway at sea, heads for Leyte in October 1944 during World War II. Warships fire heavy guns at Leyte. Ships advance under naval bombardment. Explosions on ship. U.S. troops aboard landing crafts. Japanese troops and defense during the barrage. They take positions and begin to attack. U.S. landing crafts attacked. Dramatic close up views of faces and expressions of many U.S. soldiers as they prepare for the invasion. U.S. troops leave landing craft and wade through water on to beaches. Japanese troops firing at incoming American forces with rifles and machine gun fire. American soldier raises American flag on island. Artillery fired and U.S. Army tanks advance. Wounded U.S. soldiers carried on litters. U.S. Army soldiers staying low and crawling on beach to avoid enemy fire. U.S. Army soldiers advancing, using rifle fire, hand grenades, and flamethrowers to attack entrenched Japanese enemy positions. Dead Japanese soldiers. Smoke arising from explosions in jungle.
Captured Japanese baka suicide bomb (Yokosuka Ohka; Yokosuka MXY-7 ), a rocket-powered, human-guided kamikaze attack-aircraft employed by Japan in World War II. U.S. troops and bomb disposal personnel in Okinawa Island. Bomb disposal personnel disarm explosive head of Japanese baka suicide bomb. Man look into tail and cockpit of baka flying bomb aircraft. Rocket tubes of baka lying in field.
Kin village mop up on east coast of Okinawa by United States 7th Infantry Division in World War II. Army officer speaks over portable phone on side of road as infantrymen stand about in the background. Infantrymen search entrances of native huts. Native girl smiles.
Kin village mop up on east coast of Okinawa by United States 7th Infantry Division in World War II. Infantrymen bring Japanese civilians out of native houses. Japanese civilians leave houses.
Kin village mop up on east coast of Okinawa by United States 7th Infantry Division in World War II. Infantrymen search cloths of Japanese civilians outside house. Infantryman looks at civilian putting on his shoes on entrance of house. Soldier talks to a Japanese civilian who crouches down.
Kin village mop up on east coast of Okinawa by United States 7th Infantry Division in World War II. Japanese civilians get out of houses. Infantrymen search house. Women and children rounded up by infantrymen assembled in front of the house.
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