Fascinating, thank you. The boats shown at 6:50 are the 'Shinyo' suicide boats designed to ram allied ships I spent some time living on Amami Oshima and Kikai Jima and sailed on a small boat to Tokuno Jima. The Ryukyu Islands are a very interesting part of Japan and well worth a visit.
The airfields of Okikanawa were intentionally forsaken by the Japanese army in Okinawa. Tokyo did not admit the airfields in the hands of the US. Later, the Okinawa army was forced to take them back in disastrous vain.
@@Slithey7433 In one one of the museums in Okinawa they have examples of drop tanks used by locals as fishing boats, and artillery shells used as cooking vessels. Crazy stuff.
Motion picture films with audio track weren't widely available at the time of this recording, so movies shot by American arm forces were mostly silent, like this one.
0:08 Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (Oscar) 0:36 Kawanishi N1K-J Shidenn (George) 1:16 Nakajima L2D Type Zero Transport (Tabby) 2:20 George again 10:35 Aichi E16A Zuiun (Paul) 11:19 Nakajima Ki-27 Type97 fighter (Nate) 11:29 Yokosuka D4Y3 Suisei dive-bomber (Judy) 12:39 Tachikawa Ki-36 army co-operation aircraft (Ida) 12:55 Mitsubishi Ki-67 Type 4 heavy bomber Hiryu (Peggy) 14:02 Nakajima Ki-43 foreground 14:25 Nakajima B6N2 Tenzan (Jill) 16:14 Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (Frank) .
Watching a near-pristine Ki-84 burn. :(
Ki36/ki55 not ki27
Fascinating, thank you.
The boats shown at 6:50 are the 'Shinyo' suicide boats designed to ram allied ships
I spent some time living on Amami Oshima and Kikai Jima and sailed on a small boat to Tokuno Jima. The Ryukyu Islands are a very interesting part of Japan and well worth a visit.
Great footage. Thank you.
Living in Okinawa now so this is really interesting. Wonder if any of those bunkers still there
In the 80's there were a couple on Kadena, all overgrown with brush.
Thank goodness these videos exist 👍🇳🇿
Great stuff for the WW2 plastic modeler - thanks.
thank you
Great vídeo! thank you!
The airfields of Okikanawa were intentionally forsaken by the Japanese army in Okinawa.
Tokyo did not admit the airfields in the hands of the US. Later, the Okinawa army was forced to take them back in disastrous vain.
7:10 kamikaze boats?
Yep, 'Shinyou' (Shaking Earth)
The title of this documentary should read; "Yu Fry Nomo!"
What is the origin of this amazing footage that you keep posting?
2:20 - easier to deactivate weapons in situ with thermite than to take them out.
If only some had been set aside for museums... Mehhhhh
Or for salvage and scrap for use by the local citizenry.
@@Slithey7433 In one one of the museums in Okinawa they have examples of drop tanks used by locals as fishing boats, and artillery shells used as cooking vessels. Crazy stuff.
Not sound???
They just show the pictures without comment
@Fevebblefester ok thanks bro
Motion picture films with audio track weren't widely available at the time of this recording, so movies shot by American arm forces were mostly silent, like this one.
@@yasumitsunaka6094 thanks bro..are you from japan?
The audio gave me cancer
German MG15 Machine Guns ?