Okinawa (1952)

Okinawa 1952 Basically the story of the sea battle for Okinawa between the ships of the U S Navy and the Japanese suicide planes the Kamaikazes and, as such, is filled with stock footage from official U S war department films and newsreels and from Japanese newsreels and even a movie within a movie where 1948s Ladies of the Chorus is shown to a crew of a ship in 1944 The factual story is interlaced with a fictional one dealing with the crew of an American destroyer which is assigned to an ocean picket line around Okinawa to protect the supply ships and the forces on the island As such, it has the usual battle weary skipper, the Latino wise guy, the Kid and the Old Veteran, and the brash, cigar chewing operator on the ship who has cornered the entire supply of the ships beer rations