WWII - 1945: USAAF Photo Reconnaissance, Okinawa; P47s; Men Singing (MOS) 06-07May45

WWII - 1945: USAAF Photo Reconnaissance, Okinawa; P47s; Men Singing (MOS) 06-07May45 Pilots helped into cockpit of P-47 or P-38 aka F5 airplane, motors started & taxiing on gravel airstrip; low above strip. 02:01:15 Slate: 06May45. Camera: Cosner. 02:01:20 P-47 taxiing, turning & crew removes camera or magazine from nose; into jeep & driven away. 02:02:10 Slate: same. 02:02:28 Slate: same except 07May45 02:02:31 Man washing photographs in pool of stream; jeep down narrow dirt road, film magazine handed to man & walk to tent in canyon. Sign: restricted area. Man out of jeep w/ camera, carries into tent. Men looking at photographs. 02:03:34 Slate: same. 02:03:47 CU hands holding photos . 02:03:57 Plane low over trees, then pulls up. 02;04:21 LS fighter plane landing, collapsed wheel. MCU AAF looking at plane on runway w/ collapsed landing gear & damaged propellor. Men remove gun camera 02:04:47 Slate: Okinawa Invasion. 12May45. Roll 1. Camera: Duboff. 02:04:49 P47s landing. 02:05:53 Men standing assembled in front of tent, man at small organ; man blowing bugle. 02:05:59 Officers arrive; sheets music handed out & men singing (MOS) as man leads. WW2; Daily Life; Ryukyu Islands; Ceremony;