WWII - 1945, Pacific: Cavitizing Shells; Okinawa Fighting & VIPs; POWs & Kadena Camp

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1945, Pacific: Cavitizing Shells; Okinawa Fighting & VIPs; POWs & Kadena Camp Title: Pacific - Cavitizing Shells For V-T Fuses. Soldier w/ brace & improvised drill bit; removing standard fuze from artillery shell & hand drilling cavity for extra depth necessary. Cleaning out & measuring depth w/ toothbrush, then marked w/ paint & stacked. 18:59:08 Title: Pacific - Okinawa. Men on hillside firing T-21, 75mm recoilless rifle during testing. CU of shells & explosions around caves. 57mm recoiless rifle carried forward & fired. 18:59:53 Lt. General Robert C Richardson Jr. at 7th Div. Cemetery visits Gen. Buckner's grave, places flowers. CU grave marker 19:00:14 General Hap Arnold arrives Yonton Airfield; also Gen George C. Kenney arrives for meeting. 19:00:33 Tank moving forward on Hill 89; soldiers fighting. Flame-thrower into cave, another blasted w/ grenades. Pulling dead Japanese out of cave. Prisoner checking on bodies. 19:01:45 Tank in wide valley w/ explosions, direct hit on it but keeps going. GOOD. Machine guns firing on Jap pillbox. Tanks w/ flamethrowers. Soldiers throwing grenades; evacuation of cameraman of 3235th Photo Detachment by stretcher & truck injured while taking motion pictures of caves (probably Leslie G. Crocker) 19:02:55 MCU Infantryman tells commanding officer of death of his platoon leader who was shot thru the head while fighting beside him. GOOD. 19:03:10 LC Tank flame-throwers burning ridge. Troops place satchel charges, exploding. GOOD 19:04:04 Soldiers up path on devastated smoking hillside. 19:04:10 Loudspeaker set up above coast cliffs. Women, children & enemy soldiers climbing up. Japanese-American at microphone; marched to camp. View thru gun turret of tents at POW camp at Kadena, CU sign on barbed wire re no admittance. Prisoners arrive & marched in past MPs. Searched, questioned. Haircutting, washing, play checkers, wrestling. 19:05:48 Unloading crates of supplies; cooking & serving, eating, treating injured. Prisoners lined up, flag raising at end of fighting on Okinawa. The End. WW2; Pacific Battles; Fighting; Horrors of War; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk