The Fleet That Came to Stay
A propaganda short film produced by the US Navy in 1945 about the naval engagements of the invasion of Okinawa.
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World War Two combat photography during our invasion of Okinawa, Japan in the spring of 1945.
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- Director
- Budd Boetticher
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