This film is a color & B&W tinted film, with live action clips of U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan. Produced by the Marine Corps Photographic Service. Photographed by three division combat photographers: Third Amphibious Corps, First Marine Division, and Sixth Marine Division. Narrated film shows final operations of the Marines taking the final last remaining areas of Okinawa, to overcome the stalemate with 50,000+ Japanese troops. 0:56 Opening view of Battle Tank traveling in open field. Smoke fills the air at the top of a hill layered with flowers. 1:02 From the city of Naha, the enemy defense line runs unbroken for four miles. 1:18 Marine troop encounter Japanese artillery. Tanks with flame throwers and field artillery exchange gunfire. 2:01 Marines shooting rifles at the enemy as they move behind a tank leading the way. 3:00 Audio of rifles can be heard. 3:17 Smoke and fire rises from the field with helmets, bodies and other debris lying on the ground. U.S. artillery continues fire against the Japanese town of Shuri. 3:47 Results of heavy rain in the area shuts down the artillery activity. Troops gather ammunition from the pools of water soaking the ground. 3:59 Military jeeps are seen stuck in pools of water and mud. Troops struggle to navigate over the large pools of mud. 6:21 Shuri Castle takes damage from U.S. Naval operations. Shuri village consisted of 120 acres of barracks, and were totally destroyed. 6:52 Destruction of Shuri opens up the flank of Nara, as the Japanese defense line crumbles. 7:04 Mud makes passing the Estado River near Naha difficult. 9:19 Okinawa based air support help the walking troops, as does naval bombardment. 12:58 View of Naha, with normal population of 65,000, is now deserted. 13:53 Amphibious force hits the shoreline. 17:34 Lieutenant-General Simon Bolivar Buckner is honored, as his body is carried away by the entire 10th Army. 23:00 8,000 Japanese field soldiers surrender. 24:20 After 80 days of fighting, the Island of Okinawa is in the hands of the 10th Army, a sea and air base in the East China Sea, only 400 miles from the mainland of the Japanese empire.

The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

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