An American landing craft hit by Japanese. United States 2nd Marine Division sailors fire mortars at Japanese infantry to flush them out from dugouts in Tarawa during World War II. Heavy firing takes place. Marines and tanks move up. General Holland Smith and Julian Smith inspect positions. A loader clears up debris and mud. Japanese prisoners made to march by marines. Wounded marines given blood plasma. Other wounded marines on litters pulled up onto a ship for medical aid.
Dead bodies of United States 2nd Marine Division sailors on a beach in Tarawa, of the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bodies of Marines killed in battle seen floating at the beach. Some of the dead buried at sea. Caskets covered with American flag buried at sea as honor guard fire rifles. Two Chaplains conduct burial service on board a ship.
United States 2nd Marine Division sailors cut through clothes of Japanese prisoners and search them for weapons at Tarawa in Pacific Theater during World War II. Prisoners given first aid. Japanese tanks and debris cleared up.
Construction of an airstrip at Tarawa in Pacific Ocean during World War II. Planes land and pilots congratulate the marines.
USS Gamble, destroyer/mine layer, DD-123/DM-15, being scuttled off Guam, after decommissioning, due to extreme damage from Japanese bombs off Iwo Jima. Witnessed by Admiral Chester Nimitz and staff.
U.S. Army General Walter Kruger presents awards to U.S. Sixth Army soldiers in San Fernando, Luzon in Philippines during World War II. The soldiers of U.S. Sixth Army lined up at headquarters. The Commander of the Sixth Army arrives in a car. He decorates the soldiers. He pins up medals onto their uniforms and shakes hands.
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