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Post-WWII - Color, 1945, Pacific: Okinawa Cemetery Construction; Atsuga Airfield Activity. Sep45

Reel Number: 250025-01

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Japan

Location: Tokyo

TC Begins: 00:00:03

TC Ends: 00:11:36

Duration: 00:11:33

Post-WWII - Color, 1945, Pacific: Okinawa Cemetery Construction; Atsuga Airfield Activity. Sep45 LS US military cemetery on Okinawa under construction; US flag flying from pole in middle, GIs working. MCU of rows of crosses. GOOD. 00:02:05 Slate: 11th Airborne Loading Gurka. 11th AB Engineers marching on airstrip, boarding C-54 planes; off plane at Atsugi w/ packs & down ladder. Unloading crates. 00:02:58 rolling frame line. 00:03:10 C-47 plane fly-over low & silhouetted against sky as it does roll; several. 00:04:17 Twin-engine P-38 Lightning airplane low. 00:04:39 Men walking w/ large bedding rolls over shoulders to C47 on grass strip. 00:04:45 Japanese labor battalion soldiers walking past w/ sticks, salute. Jap & GI inspecting small camouflage painted Japanese tanks, one w/ bomb trailer. 00:05:32 Pan large field lined w/ Jap trucks, 00:05:58 High angle Atsugi airstrip w/ 4-engine plane waiting while Jap trucks cross; MATS plane taxiis & follows. 00:06:32 HA of line of sedans passing below on airstrip. 00:06:53 4-engine C-54 plane landing. Trucks across airstrip; many parked on grass, then convoy moving across 00:07:38 HA Japanese walking / marching on runway. 00:07:58 Trucks across airstrip, plane landing behind. Many planes parked & trucks & cars moving. 00:08:47 Slate: Commando Photo Tokyo, Gurka. Long line of MATS 4-engine planes taxiing, parked. 00:09:03 American, Russian & ??, civilian & military, walk away from planes. MCU Japanese officer walking; Jap. soldiers walking past wrecked hangers. MS US officer talking to them GOOD. Post-WW2 Japan Surrenders; Occupation;

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