Okinawa Bulletins
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The Okinawa Bulletins were a two-part series of films made by the United States Marine Corps
documenting the Battle of Okinawa
in the summer of 1945.
planes and torpedoes. The mass suicides of the Okinawans is never mentioned.
United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
documenting the Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945...
in the summer of 1945.
Bulletin of the Okinawa Operation MOB-56
The first installment follows the American servicemen from the landings at Okinawa to the beginning of the siege at Naha. The first installment covers the surrender, and evacuation of Okinawan civilians, the taking of the hill country and the capture of some Japanese kamikazeKamikaze
The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....
planes and torpedoes. The mass suicides of the Okinawans is never mentioned.