Aerial views of U.S. fleet off the coast of Japan towards the end of World War II. A U.S. Navy Iowa Class battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) underway. Destroyer USS Nicholas (DD-449) underway flanking battleship. A Japanese camouflaged DD anchored near a dock (IJN Fubuki Type II Destroyer Ushio?) A Japanese Navy BB (battleship) in a basin. Shore facilities near Yokosuka Naval Base show bomb damage.
The bride schools in Yokosuka, Japan. Sailors and their Japanese girls enter chapel at Naval Base at Yokosuka for briefing before marriage. Chaplain talks at the two sailors and their girls. One sailor and two Japanese girls talk to Chaplain. Japanese girl talks to Chaplin as a sailor and a girl listens. Sailor and bride look at some books on table. Chaplain takes book from sailor and hands it to the girl. Girl takes the book and opens it. The book is a Japanese English version of new testament. One page of the book and other in Japanese. Girl turns pages of a book.
The operations of the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa during World War II. Marines advance along the way. They fire guns. Smoke arises due to firing. Corpses being inspected. A wounded Japanese soldier crawls from his nest. Marines and Japanese troops skirmish in a wooded area. An airstrip is captured and graded. Dummy tanks and planes and a "Baka" suicide plane being inspected (A Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka). Soldiers stand near an aircraft. Planes take off from the runway.
Captured Japanese baka suicide bomb (Yokosuka Ohka) 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. Rocket tubes of baka lying in field.
Vice Admiral S.H. Ingersoll stands before speaker's stand and speaks to Vice Admiral W.M. Beakley who sits in his chair at the change of Command ceremony of United states 7th Naval fleet in Yokosuka,Japan. Ingersoll sits in a chair as Beakley speaks into a mike from the speaker's stand. The two officers salute as Marines salute in response on board United states ship Bon Homme Richard.
Vice Admiral S.H. Ingersoll and Vice Admiral W.M. Beakley arrive at speaker's stand on board United states Navy ship Bonn Homme Richard in Yokosuka,Japan for 7th Naval fleet's change of command ceremony. A Naval Captain and Ingersoll speak into the mike. Ingersoll and Beakley converse with each other on bridge of a ship.
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