High Winds on Okinawa Even before the typhoon arrives, while the skies are still bright and blue, Okinawa, when in the path of a typhoon, can expect high winds. Here such a pre-typhoon wind gives a sample of what may come. U.S. Air Force men and women on Okinawa busily follow a prepared plan of battening themselves and their equipment down when they are warned a typhoon is approaching the island.

United States. Air Force · [ca. August 1953]

[Information from item housing] Weather: Typhoons