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Mixture of scenes from various amphibious assaults on Japanese occupied islands in the Pacific during the U.S. island hopping campaigns of World War II
First scenes show U.S. Marines riding in a landing vehicle tracked (LVT) heading toward a Japanese occupied island in the Pacific. View from one of the landing craft of heavy smoke obscuring the island coast. Next, a dozen landing craft from the USS George Clymer (APA-27) are seen with mountains of the target island looming in the background. View from a different perspective shows several landing craft heading toward an inlet to the island. View from a landing craft of a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" airplane flying overhead. Closeup of U.S. soldiers in a landing craft headed toward a different Japanese occupied island. Soldiers leaving a landing craft in the surf. View from inside a landing craft as Marines head ashore. Soldiers splashing in the surf. Troops wading ashore. Soldier dug in on beach near underbrush, firing many round from his Browning M1919 machine gun. Marine firing his rifle behind a palm tree. Troops seeking cover at very edge of shore. Some lying in the water, before moving on. A soldier firing an automatic weapon through foliage. A bomb explodes near an invasion ship. Troops descending on rope nets from the troopship, USS Crescent City (APA-21) and entering her Higgins boats. Heavy equipment and ammunition being offloaded from the troop transport ship. Marines coming ashore. An LVT in the background. Marines behind a barricade built by the Japanese. Marines throwing hand grenades and firing Browning M1919 machine guns. Flame throwers being used to force Japanese from strongholds. Marines gathered all along a shore line. A bulldozer driving along the waters edge. Soldiers rolling steel mesh across the sand. An antiaircraft machine gun with a side magazine mounted on a jeep, moves on the sand. Several ensuing scenes show flame throwers being used. Marines near a wrecked Japanese structure and then escorting a Japanese prisoner. A group of Japanese prisoners being spoken to by a Marine with a microphone. Marines hunkered down on a beach. One is cranking a hand powered radio transmitter. Front ramp of a landing craft is dropped down with a splash at waters edge. An M3A1 light tank drives off the landing craft. A truck being offloaded onto the shore. A heavy field artillery piece being moved into position. Troops work to move another field artillery piece into position. Trucks and other vehicles wading through shallow water as they leave an LST. Troops wading ashore from the LST. Trucks arriving on the shore. A tractor pulls a canvas covered vehicle. Soldiers ride aboard a light tank. Unusual view of troops assembled on shore of a mountain with ice seen in places on it (likely in the Aleutians). Crowded beachhead with LST 477 seen beached. Marines looking at destroyed Shore defense installation containing heavy gun. Remains of a 4-engine Japanese Kawanishi H8K2 (Emily) flying boat in the water. Seabees building an airfield with heavy construction equipment. Troops gathered around a Navy F4F aircraft that landed on the new (unfinished) airfield. Closeup of the smiling pilot climbing down from his plane. Troops saluting as the American flag is raised on remains of a Palm tree trunk, on Eniwetok, February 1944. Remains of a Japanese shrine and views of dead Japanese soldiers.
Brief wartime scenes from Pacific Theater during World War II
First scene shows a raging fire on an island in the Pacific during World War 2. Next, the dense smoke cloud is seen from a boat offshore as it covers all of the sky. A landing ship Tank nearby is silhouetted against the light sky. U.S. medics are seen bending a wounded soldier lying on the ground, as they administer first aid to him. Change if scene shows natives preparing to dig a dead soldier out of mud. U.S. Marines push wounded away from a shore on an inflated raft. Natives help a blinded Australian soldier wade through water and mud in jungles of Papua New Guinea. Australian soldiers, in rain gear, stand in a battlefield graveyard containing several rustic crosses. One of them reads from a document, as the others stand with heads bowed. Closeups from camera panning around the group of soldiers. Next, one is seen reading from a small prayer book. More closeups from various views of the mourning soldiers.
U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard academies hold graduation ceremonies and the cadets receive diplomas in the U.S.
United States Service academies hold graduation ceremonies in the U.S. At West Point, Annapolis, U.S. Army cadets of academy and officers gather for graduation ceremony. Cadets come to an officer, shake hands and receive diplomas. At U.S. Naval Academy, naval cadets receive diplomas and celebrate. The cadets of U.S. Air Force Academy march and sit in chairs to attend the graduation ceremony. In New London, Connecticut U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and says that their war potential is far superior to that of Russia.
Barry Goldwater wins the Republican Presidential Primary and George Salinger wins the Democratic Senator Primary in California.
Republican Presidential and Democratic Senator Primaries in California in 1964. U.S. Senator Barry Morris Goldwater emerges from a car and receives congratulations for being nominated for President in United States Republican Presidential Primary. Governor of New York, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, exits from a bus and meets delegates. Nelson Rockefeller addressees a large crowd as he loses the U.S. Republican Presidential Primary. Barry Goldwater speaks to a large crowd during the presidential campaign. People applaud and cheer for the nominees. Elevated aerial views of part of harbor and city of San Francisco California. Exterior views of the Cow Palace arena near San Francisco, California, which will be site of the Republican National Convention of 1964. Next scene shows Alan Cranston, California Senate Controller, casting vote in a ballot box for Democratic Senatorial Primary. Pierre Emil George Salinger, former Press Secretary, wins the Senatorial nomination in the Democratic party. He is greeted by his wife. He is congratulated by his supporters and party.
The future Houston Astrodome under construction, June 1964
Views of what would become the Astrodome in Houston Texas while under construction in 1964. Aerial shots show the current, open-air stadium of the Houston Colts baseball team (soon to be renamed the Astros) and the new domed stadium being built a short distance away. Announcer notes the structure covers nine and a half acres. Views of the translucent roof. Views of construction crews working inside the unfinished stadium, which at this point has no grass or turf on the playing field and none of the seating installed. Man in hardhat speaks into walkie-talkie. Worker lifts beam on crane. Welder works on pipe.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and U.S. officers review troops and troops march during his visit to the United States.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran visits the United States. Motorcade of Shah of Iran driving over the Bear Mountain Bridge, in New York and arrives at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point. Artillery fire in salute. U.S. troops standing in attention with flags of U.S. and Iran. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and U.S. officer salute. Shah Pahlavi gets out of car and is greeted by U.S. General. Shah Pahlavi and escorting General officer enter into building. Shah Pahlavi and the General review parade of the cadets at West Point. Shah Pahlavi shakes hands with West Point cadets, and then enters car and his motorcade drives away.
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