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Jerry Colonna and Bob Hope perform for U.S. soldiers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II.

American entertainers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II. Comedian Bob Hope acts as the Master of the Ceremony and introduces comedian Jerry Colonna. Jerry sings a song as Tony Romano plays a guitar. Bob Hope and a man perform to amuse U.S. soldiers.

Date: 1944, August 2
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057651
Frances Langford performs for U.S. soldiers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II.

American entertainers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II. Comedian Bob Hope acts as the Master of the Ceremony and introduces singer Frances Langford. Hope and Langford crack a few jokes to entertain U.S. soldiers. Langford sings and Tony Romano plays a guitar behind her.

Date: 1944, August 2
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057652
A chaplain hears confessions and celebrates Mass of Marines in Bougainville, Solomon Islands.

Rituals conducted by a chaplain and celebrations in Bougainville, Solomon Islands. The chaplain hears confessions and celebrates Mass for the Marines under a tent in a jungle. The marines stand under the tent. They sit on their knees.

Date: 1944, March 8
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046499
A marine cuts hair of his fellow marine in a jungle in Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.

United States Marines groom themselves in a jungle in Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. One of the marines cuts hair of another one in the jungle. The marine getting the hair cut sits on a chair.

Date: 1944, March 8
Duration: 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046501
Lt Col Dr Gordon Seagrave treats the wounded soldiers in Burma and U.S. transport planes drop supplies at jungle outposts.

Allied jungle outposts get supplies by parachutes during World War II. U.S. General Joseph Stilwell looks as soldiers bring wounded on stretchers into a field hospital in the jungles of Burma. Lieutenant Colonel Dr Gordon Seagrave and Burmese nurses treat the wounded. American transport planes drop supplies by parachute on the outposts on the Naga Hills on India Burma border. An airman drops the supplies out of the plane. A map shows Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. A Fiji soldier on a radio. American transport planes drop supplies by parachute for the Fijian troops in Bougainville.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033599
American infantrymen advance through jungle in Bougainville, Solomon Islands

American infantrymen scramble throught jungle in Bougainvilie, Solomon Islands. One soldier fires a flame thrower, which produces a large fireball that burns portions of the underbrush. American troops advance cautiously, in crouched positions.Smoke partially obscures the scene, as they employ more flame throwers. Riflemen watch carefully for emerging Japanese soldiers after flame throwers are used. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, April
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038249