Okinawa: Marine action on Okinawa - NPC-13009
428-NPC-13009
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Description:
4/19/1945
1) MS Group of marines watch civilian families in stockade (SV).
2) CU Marine magician entertaining Japanese civilians.
3) CU Marine MP examining Japanese civilian for weapons.
4) MS Japanese civilians marching down roadway, guarded by marines.
5) MS 155mm battery set up.
6) MS Native huts going up in flames (SV).
7) MS Company of marines moving down roadway, fires burning, BG.
8) CU Marine lighting thatched roof of native structure.
9) CU Marine using walkie-talkie.
10) HA CU Grenade thrown into cave, explosion follows.
11) MS Squad of marines crawling toward top of hill.
12) CU Native children & women leaving bombed cave.
13) LS F4U of Blackjack Marine Squadron landing at Yontan Airport, Okinawa; observation type plane, BG.
14) MS Natives, with bags on their heads, leaving burned out village of Sobe, guarded by marines.
15) CU Air evacuation scenes as wounded, on stretchers, are placed aboard R50; corpsman chacks names.