FIRE ON BEACH, OKINAWA SHIMA, RYUKYU ISLANDS ; PW STORY, OKINAWA, RYUKYU ISLANDS Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 4826 111 SOURCE: AFCF (48) POA- 3) Card I of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 857' ea Silent Record Group 111 4826-1 Accession III-NAV-210 FIRE ON BEACH Okinawa Shima, Ryukyu Islands 2 June 45 Seq: Soldiers pour water from hoses onto two burning AA gun positions of the 861st AAA-AW Group on Orange Beach #2. PW STORY Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands 19 Apr 45 LS, stockade showing guard with MG in fg. CU, guard holding 30 cal MG outside the tower. CU, sign on entrance: "No Admittance Except on Official Business". LHS, prisoners in detention pens. MSs, CU, a Japanese-American Sgt interrogates several prisoners. MSs, 75 year-old PW playing checkers with a 15 year-old prisoner. Seq: Prisoners watch two prisoners in a wrestling match. MS, CU, US medics treat a 15 and a 16 year-old "Boeitai" (civilians on Japanese payroll). ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 4826 SOURCE: AFCF (48-POA-3) Card 2 of 2 111 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 857' ea Silent 4826-2 PW STORY (Cont'd) Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands 19 Apr 45 (Cont'd) MS, prisoners make repairs on barbed wire fencing of compound. Seq: Detail of prisoners unload rations from trucks. Seq: Protestant services for Christian Japanese soldiers is conducted by an American chaplain. MS, Japanese prisoner plays portable organ for services. CU, sheet music on organ entitled "Faith in Victory". VS, Japanese prisoners singing hymn as US chaplain holds blackboard with words written in Japanese. MLSs, CUs, at the 386th Medical Collecting Co and 655th Clearing Co; wounded prisoners on litters have their wounds dressed by US medics. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities