Photograph. Japanese doctors and medical personnel, prisoners of war, boarding a landing craft bound for Okinawa Island after volunteering to aid U.S. Navy doctors. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/16/45--Japanese prisoners volunteer to aid Okinawans--Twenty-eight Japanese doctors and medical corpsmen, prisoners of war, board a small landing craft for Okinawa Island after volunteering to aid U.S. Navy doctors in caring for more than 150,000 civilians under control of the U.S. military government. The Japanese medical group were brought from Guam prisoner of war camp where they were retained after captured by U.S. Marines. Their faces are obscured by censor. Okinawa civilians have come out of their hiding places following the defeat of the Japanese and they are being encouraged to resume raising food crops which the Japanese had forced them to abandon in favor of sugar crops for export.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7121." Near Okinawa Island, Japan. 16 July 1945