ACCESS FOOTAGE

Description:

On the activities of the 1st and 6th Marine Divisions on the island. The 24th Army Corps and the Marine units effect a landing. Tanks are floated ashore on pontoons. Marines and tanks move inland. Rifle grenades are used in capturing a Japanese command post. Okinawan refugees emerge from huts and clog a road. Jeeps, tanks. and amphitracks ford a stream; bulldozers repair a road. Snipers are routed from the hills with pack charges and small arms fire; corpses are inspected; a wounded Japanese soldier crawls from his nest. Marines and Japanese troops skirmish in a wooded area. An airstrip is captured and graded; dummy tanks and planes and a "Baka" (suicide plane) are inspected. Suicide boats, packed with explosives and intended for launching down a hill and into a stream, are inspected. Marines and flamethrowing tanks mop up a village. Food, water, and munitions are parachuted from "Corsair" planes to Marines creeping up a hill. Tank guns fire into caves. Wounded are carried to the rear. Smoke protects Marines crossing an open slope. Mud bogs trucks and jeeps. Japanese positions are attacked with flamethrowers and bazookas. A disabled tank is salvaged and its crew rescued under a smoke screen. Flamethrowing tanks mop up behind the Marine lines. Marines relieve Army units south of Naha. Rockets, artillery, and dive bombers bombard "Sugar Loaf Hill." Self-propelled 155's are brought up. Artillery and dive bombers strike Naha as Marines occupy its outskirts.