# COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 50

Department of Defense PIN 20314 COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 50 COVERS JOINT ARMY AND NAVY INVASION OF THE RYUKYU ISLANDS, NAVAL BOMBARDMENT INCLUDING USE OF ROCKET SHIPS, AND CAPTURED JAPANESE CIVILIANS. SHOWS BRITISH AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS IN BURMA AND CLEAN UP IN MANDALAY. THE P-80 "SHOOTING STAR" FIGHTER AIRCRAFT IS FEATURED, AS WELL AS A 5TH ARMY MOTOR POOL IN ITALY. LIBERATION OF PRISONERS AND SLAVE LABORERS IS SEEN AS US FORCES INVADE GERMAN CITIES AND TOWNS AND CONDUCT MOP-UP OPERATIONS.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1945
- By: Department of Defense
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.20314)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.