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Okinawa - Japanese Soldiers Surrender
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keywords: wwii, pacific theater, okinawa, japanese pows, soldiers surrender
Synopsis: Unedited footage of Japanese POWs who surrendered in large numbers after nearly three months of heavy fighting resulting in high casualties, lack of supplies and low morale...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:08:34
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Okinawa
Okinawa - Japanese Soldiers Surrender
Shows group of Japanese POWs (prisoners of war) under guard in open area on Island of Okinawa. CU of Japanese POWs. Five Japanese soldiers approach group of POWs, searched by U.S. guard and added to group. Japanese soldiers making their way up rocky volcanic slope with hands raised in surrender. Japanese prisoners are searched. Japanese soldier using stick to walk and holding a "surrender leaflet" in other hand. Shows a small boy with white flag tied to a stick leading a group of Japanese soldiers.
Shows American tank with gun pointed at entrance to cave. Japanese soldiers and civilian women and children come out of cave. Shows a Marine with clip board interrogating Japanese soldiers. CU of Japanese prisoners. Shows a large group of women and children sitting on the ground. Some of the women have small babies on their back. Shows Japanese soldier only wearing a loin cloth surrendering with hands raised.
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- Okinawa 1945 4th Marine Regiment
- Okinawa - Fighting Toward Naha
- Okinawa - Assault On Sugar Hill
- Okinawa - American Flag Raised
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- The Fleet That Came To Stay
