Activities of the U.S. 1st and the 6th Marine Divisions on the island of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Marines advance towards south of Naha. Firing and bombarding in the battlefield. Soldiers fire guns from tanks and advance. Smoke arises due to bombardment. Marines fire rifles. Marines carry the dead body of General Simon Bolivar Buckner on a stretcher after he was killed in Japanese firing.
Activities of the U.S. 1st and the 6th Marine Divisions on the island of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A marine waves a green flag and gives signal to a plane to take off. The plane takes off. The plane carries wounded to the medical aid station. Marines take out the wounded from the plane and take them to the field hospital on stretchers. Airplane in flight.
Activities of the U.S. 1st and the 6th Marine Divisions on the island of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Marines clean out caves with flame throwers and satchel charges. Some Japanese soldiers committing suicide rather than surrendering. Planes drop fire bombs into wooded areas. Smoke arising due to the bombardment.
From "The Last Bomb", shows U.S. Army Air Forces conventional bombing of Japan in 1945, during World War 2. Map shows take off points in Saipan, Guam and Tinian. Guam Island shores. Houses and mountains in Guam. Civilians in village. U.S. military equipment, ammunition, vehicles and aircraft parked at airfield. Men around tents. Men at airfield engaged in morning activities. B-29 aircraft parked and others taxi at airfield. Technicians work on aircraft engines. Men manning B29s. Men board B29s. Sign reads 'Headquarters XXI Bomber Command'. General Curtis LeMay around chart planning raid on Japan's industrial areas. Other officers in room. Officer stand up as General Curtis leaves. Officers discuss the plan of attack. Bombs including GP bombs transferred at airfield. Submarines speed up in water to take up positions. Officers at headquarters in discussion. Officers talk on phone. Officer around flight status panel carry out visual progress of the flights. Officer marks positions. Time table for statistics of each wing on wall. B29s taxis for take off at airfield.
Evacuation of U.S. soldier casualties from Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, in World War 2. A injured soldier carried on a stretcher from a field ambulance and placed into a Stinson L-5B Sentinel aircraft flown by the 163rd Liaison Squadron. Several casualties and L-5B aircraft.
Japanese civilian prisoners are loaded aboard dukw on Okinawa Island. U.S. Army troops lined up. Children and women aboard dukw. Japanese civilians carry loads of wood into a compound in which civilian internees are kept. Group of civilians seated around fire, bundled up for warmth. They drink in turn from canteen cup. They wear life preservers. Nisei Japanese questions civilians. Military Police watch as a Japanese solder is questioned (World War II period).
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