Okinawa Bulletins

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. 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 kamikaze planes and torpedoes. The mass suicides of the Okinawans is never mentioned. The second installment covers the siege and capture of Naha, and the final fight against Japanese resistance in the extreme north of the island. It shows some of the Japanese suicides, as well as the few prisoners who were taken after fierce...