WWII - 1945, Okinawa: Grave Registration Service. ca 16May45

WWII - 1945, Okinawa: Grave Registration Service. ca16May45 GIs in bomb crater attaching packs ammo belt. Black GIs carry stretcher w/ covered body to truck; tents. Drive off. Carry covered bodies w/ boots on from collection tent to large truck; place in back. 22:02:04 Bodies on ground, men writing down identification information from dog tags, Man uses knife to cut ropes holding bodies to stretcher, remove belongings; dead face seen. Gathering notes. 22:03:48 Bulldozer covering or digging mass grave. Stretchers stacked after carrying bodies & dumping in mass grave; men dumping bodies. Men shoveling dirt onto bodies burying the dead. 22:05:42 Rows of grave markers on covered graves, pan across many. 22:06:07 Slate: 12May45. Men firing machine gun from ridge line. LS across valley w/ soldier visible. US soldiers dug into side of hill seen from ridge close above; firing rifles. 22:07:53 MCU Man on radio telephone holding binoculars; men firing machine gun. LS explosions & smoke across valley. 22:08:26 Group of soldiers or marines out of back of truck, happy. Sign: The 24th Corps Air Regulating Officer. Man w/ pad taking notes. Men being briefed, sitting on ground listening. Others standing getting pay. Officer holding string of bills. Boarding MATs plane & shaking hands. Four-engine plane starting, taxiing, taking off from dirt strip. 22:10:47 Man showing souvenir sword. Horrors of War; Death; Transfers; WW2; Pacific;