WWII - 1945, U.S. Forces Secure Okinawa As Base Against Japan - Marines Capture Ryuku Islands On Okinawa Flank

WWII - 1945, Pacific: Landing & Fighting On Okinawa; Capturing Prisoners Intertitle: U.S. Forces Secure Okinawa As Base Against Japan - Marines Capture Ryuku Islands On Okinawa Flank. 04:11:40 MCU from water of various landing craft underway. Rockets fired towards shore from ship. MS marine chewing gum pushing firing knob / button firing rockets. 04:12:00 Troops on island. Frightened civilian family out of cave & bow to Americans. 04:12:14 Intertitle: Rooting Out Die-Hard Japs on Okinawa. 04:12:18 Americans burning grassy land w/ tank mounted flame-thrower - Japanese soldiers come out of burning bushes one by one & surrender. MCU pan young Japanese soldiers. Marines w/ backpack flame- throwers. Group of half-naked Japanese w/ white flags. Japanese w/ loincloths & civilian refugees past. 04:12:58 Intertitle: Japs Who Surrendered Interned In Camp. 04:13:02 Trucks full of Japanese POWs past barbed wire enclosure w/ tents. LS Okinawa prison camp. CUs prisoners in camp. Crowd of prisoners marching. WW2 Prisoners of War; Horrors of War; 1940s; Ryukyu; Invasion;