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Marines On Okinawa, Last Pictures Of General S.B. Buckner, USA, Just Before Being Killed, 07/05/1945
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Naval Photographic Center film # 111615. National Archives description:" 1) CU Group of marines at command post looking at a chart of combat area. 2) MS Picture of marine in a partial foxhole with a mortar. 3) CU Marines, in a trench, looking out over open valley with binoculars smoke columns rise in the distance from mortar fire. 4) HA MS Marine communications squad lays telephone wire toward advance position. 5) CU Marine carrying mortar parts on his shoulders. 6) CU USMC sniper, with telescopic lens on rifle, shooting across valley. 7) HA MS Mortar squad firing. 8) LS Phosphorous smoke shells hit in open valley & lay smoke screen. 9) CU Marine C.P. men lying flat on ground (SV). 10) HA MS Men advancing across open field below (SV). 11) CU Three marines in C.P. near top of ridge. 12) CU M5 tank, "AMAPOLA, " passing, FG. 13) HA MS Two tanks advancing, infantrymen follow behind (SV). 14) HA MS Tanks firing. 15) LS Shells bursting in small group of houses Pan, back to C.P. at top of ridge LT GEN SIMON BOLIVAR BUGR, USA, directing operations. 16) HA MS Six marine tanks, in valley, firing at caves on side of cliff. 381= G. L., islands, Okinawa 381= BATTLES, Okinawa 381= ENL"D. MEN, US…
Directors & creators
United States. Navy
Subjects
WWII, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Marine Corps, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island, World War II, United States. -- Marine Corps -- History -- World War, 1939-1945, Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1886-1945, Chamberlain, William, 1903-1966, Hubbard, Jay W., Wallace, Clarence R.
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