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WWII - 1945, Documentary: Okinawa

Reel Number: 220419-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country: PacificUSA

Location: Okinawa RYUKU ISLANDS

TC Begins: 13:51:17

TC Ends: 14:00:39

Duration: 00:09:22

Titles. 13:51:57 Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) at dock, Mrs Roosevelt, w/ Mrs. John Towers (sponsor of ship), Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King & General Marshall launch ship. 13:52:27 Ernest J. King at desk, SOF “...we never did, & never shall, underestimate the staying powers of the Japanese...” VO: Battleship at rough sea; plane takes off from carrier. 13:53:18 Aerial shots Okinawa, Gun camera of rocket attack on industrial area. 13:53:44 Sea battle, flak, tracers, Japanese war planes under attack, hit & dive into sea. Battleship firing broadside. Single large gun firing off ship. Explosion near ship. Bombardment, rockets on island. Fleet at sea, rockets fired from ship, coastal hits. (GOOD) 13:56:10 US troops in landing crafts ashore 01Apr45, on beach thru mud. Marines up hill on tanks, soldiers sit on top. Burning field & building, US soldier walks thru. Wounded on jeep; wounded carried on stretchers, tended w/ plasma, loaded on plane, take off. 13:58:56 Battle in jungle. Firing guns. Japanese killed, falls in front of camera. Dead Japanese. Throwing grenades. Surrendered Japanese soldier. POW. Pull dead Japanese out of cave. The End. WWII Pacific War; WW2 War Effort; Home Front; 1945; Note: Launched 29Apr45 as Coral Sea; renamed 08May45.

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