BOMBARDMENT AND RUINS OF NAHA, OKINAWA Part 3

Description

1) MS Superstructure of USS VINCENNES (CL-64) as main battery rifles fire during bombardment of Okinawa (SV).2) MS Base of main turret as empty shell casings fall out.3) MS Man operating target indicator.4) MS Officers & talkers on bridge of CL.5) LS Shoreline of Okinawa fire & smoke columns from bombardment phosphorous shell bursts.6) MS Partially camouflaged Japanese locomotive at Naha terminal.7) MS Damaged Japanese railroad rolling stock (SV).8) HA MS Small Japanese barges sunk in shallow water.9) MS Damage to city.10) MS Japanese vessels sunk in estuary.11) HA MS Line of automotive equipment on road.12) MS LVT underway.13) MS Sunken Japanese ships.14) MS PT boats alongside dock, mobile crane lifts fuel drums from boats, place them on truck, parked on dock.15) MS Wrecked Japanese planes, gutted hangars at Naha Airfield.16) MS Entrance to reinforced underground hangar at Naha Airfield.17) MS Marines inspect wreckage of twin engine Japanese plane entrance to underground fortification, BG.18) MS/CU Wrecked Japanese planes on airfield.QUALITY: GOOD

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities