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WWII - 1945, Okinawa: Marines on Okinawa, Last Pictures of Gen. Buckner, 18Jun45

Reel Number: 250124-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Japan,USA

Location: Okinawa

TC Begins: 08:49:15

TC Ends: 08:55:31

Duration: 00:06:16

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1945, Okinawa: Marines on Okinawa, Last Pictures of Gen. Buckner, 18Jun45 Marines at command post looking at a chart of combat area. CU Marine w/ binoculars. Officers & others looking. LS marines in trench. 08:49:54 MS Picture of marine in a partial foxhole with a mortar (out of focus. CU Marines, in a trench, looking out over open valley with binoculars smoke columns rise in the distance from mortar fire. Marines on ridge noting ?? 08:50:48 HA MS Marine communications squad lays telephone wire toward advance position. CU Marine carrying mortar parts on his shoulders. CU USMC sniper, w/ telescopic lens on rifle, shooting across valley. MS Mortar squad firing. 08:51:25 LS Phosphorous smoke shells hit in open valley & lay smoke screen. 08:51:55 CU Marine C.P. men lying flat on ground (SV). 08:52:20 MS Men advance across open field below. 08:52:58 CU Three marines in C.P. near top of ridge. 08:53:19 CU heavily sandbagged M5 tank, "AMAPOLA, " passing, FG. 08:53:34 HA MS Two tanks advancing, infantrymen follow behind. 08:53:51 HA MS Tanks firing. LS Shells bursting in small group of houses. 08:54:39 MS C.P. at top of ridge LT GEN Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. directing operations. 08:55:09 HA MS six marine tanks, in valley, firing at caves on side of cliff. Row of marines moving forward. WW2 Fighting; Battle; NOTE: w/ General Buckner, Commander of 10th Army, when killed were Maj. William Chamberlain, Lt. Col. Clarence Wallace & an MP bodyguard, PFC Harry M. Sarkisian. May be included in footage. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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