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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221140-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945
Country: Japan
Location: Okinawa
TC Begins: 00:04:09
TC Ends: 00:14:13
Duration: 00:10:04
WWII - 1945, Occupation of Okinawa US soldiers in a village (activities unclear due to fading). 00:06:51 Japanese civilians held at a stockade, mostly sitting on the ground in a rope or low barbed wire enclosure; CU elderly Japanese couple seated, US soldier standing behind w/ notepad; civilians onto trucks to be evacuated from village (which is to be turned into an air base); exodus of trucks and civilians carrying personal belongings; POV traveling shot from a truck showing queue of civilians by roadside. 00:07:49 Several trucks past camera & into distance; we can just see the heads of the civilians inside; Many civilians hurrying along on foot, loaded with belongings, carrying on poles & heads, some pulling handcarts. Along gravel road w/ water alongside, across bridge. Walking up past camera in MCU. Line of trucks along causeway. Entering village, along narrow streets and roads. 00:10:02 Aerial shots of village rooftops & pan across surrounding flatlands, water & mudflats. Trucks visible along road. Cranes/diggers at work on airfield. 00:11:01 Village of thatched huts w/ people about. Women, children and old men. Washing & hanging out clothes. 00:11:36 Trucks with Japanese men past, Japanese workers checked in by US soldiers at table; workers in large group, they bow (to soldiers?) & march off; workers given food parcels, stop for lunch. Workers toiling (forced labour?) with sledgehammers & picks along roadside, some smiling; Stacking bags of cement. Earthmoving equipment & rollers working on airstrip. 00:13:48 Workers constructing sheds (?) and painting w/ large brushes. Planes taxiing on completed airstrip.