WWII - 1945, Okinawa & Pacific: News Parade, The

WWII - 1945, Okinawa & Pacific: News Parade, The Titles. 10:22:31 Title: Yanks Battle For Okinawa! U.S. navy rocket barrage fro ship 199 & other ships firing. Vice Admiral Turner & Lt. Gen. Buckner watch w/ binoculars; explosions on shore w/ rocket hits & bombs seen from water. POV of landing craft & views of amphibious landing vessels. Jeeps ashore, GIs move inland. Planes attacking ships & show down. Very heavy ack-ack / anti-aircraft gunfire & debris into water. 10:24:34 Jungle fighting; phosphorus & burning brush & huts. GIs crawling thru grass. Grenades thrown into Japanese caves. Dynamite set. Dead Japanese down rocks. Another shot coming out of cave. Explosions. 10:26:27 4 raise flag on pole. 10:26:37 Title: Bombing Of USS Franklin! 19Mar45 Carrier (CV-13) w/ plane landing; dive bomber, heavy smoke & running sailors fight fire seen on board. Carrier seen in flames & exploding from another ship. Fighting fire on deck. Fireball from another ship. More fighting fire. Treating wounded. Kamikaze planes shot down. Tumble out of sky missing a wing. 10:29:58 Franklin from water in heavy flames & explosions. Fighting flames & treating wounded on board. 10:30:37 Catholic Chaplain Joseph O’Callahan treating wounded. Gives blessing & prayer. Cruiser Santa Fe alongside listing carrier fighting fire & removing wounded. 10:32:07 Men trapped on fantail rescued; pulled from water. LIfe raft & survivors onto ship. Franklin tatter flag flying. 10:33:57 Chaplain O’Callahan gives prayer. Franklin thru Panama canal w/ tugs; into NYC harbor past Statue of Liberty & lower Manhattan to Brooklyn Navy Yard, 28Apr45. Ceremony awarding Purple Hearts. O’Callahan & Capt. Leslie E. Gehres in CU & dress uniforms. The End WW2 Battles; Sea Battles; Horrors of War; Fighting;