Activities of United States Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. A flamethrower man fires at a house. The man and his assistant come up a hill. The man fires at an empty house. Dense jungle in the foreground. Men refuel the flamethrower. A bazooka man and an assistant advance across a clearing. Tanks in the foreground. A man fires from a tank at enemy positions. The bazooka man advances over a small knoll. The men advance over the top of the knoll. The men advance through a clearing. Smoke in the background. Tanks fire towards enemy positions on a hill. Smoke rises from the hill.
Activities of United States Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. A man crouches near a wrecked enemy vehicle in the foreground. Tanks fire at enemy positions. A half track vehicle moves up through dense undergrowth. A man with a Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) moves up through a small clearing. A dense jungle in the foreground and the background. A man sitting on the turret of a tank. The man armed with the BAR advances across a field. He moves past burning buildings. The men advance across a small clearing, cautiously ducking into fox holes. Three men in a slit trench. A man sitting in a fox hole. A man in prone position fires a rifle from thickly under grown area. A tank advances towards a wrecked enemy building. Buildings and the town burning. Large columns of smoke rise. An airplane dives towards the enemy town.
Activities of United States Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. A bomb disposal crew loads dud bombs onto a truck. They pull the dud bombs out of the ground and load them onto the truck. The pulling of a dud bomb out of the ground with a chain. Men crouched down along the side of a road. They are resting on the road. A tank in the background. A muddy road leads to wrecked native buildings. A large column of smoke rises in the air. Wrecked buildings in the foreground.
U.S. Army troops approach stationary C-47 'Skytrain' transport planes on ground in Algeria during World War II. Sign on side of one plane identifies its name as "Big Jig." Taxi and takeoff of C-47 as seen in point of view shot through open side door of C-47 aircraft. C-47 in flight. P-38 Lightning fighter plane in flight escorting the paratroopers. Interior of a C-47. C-47 in flight over water. Point of view shots through cockpit window of C-47 aircraft in formations over water. C-47over mountain area. P-38 in flight. U.S. Army paratroopers jump from C-47 near Tunis toward target enemy airport in Tunisia held by Germans. Parachutes descend and land on ground as seen from C-47 aircraft in flight. C-47 parked on airfield.
British tanks being loaded at a UK port, bound for the Soviet Union, during World War 2. A Cruiser V Covenanter tank in the foreground and several Valentine tanks lined up behind it. A trainload of tanks moving on a British railway. Convoy of Allied ships headed toward the Soviet Union. Map shows route from the UK to Murmansk. View from aboard a ship in the convoy as gunners man antiaircraft gun to defend against German bombers attacking from Norway. Black flak clouds in the air. View of the convoy proceeding through waters containing drifting pieces of ice.
U.S.Paratroopers attack after a 1500 mile trip from the UK. The load aboard 44 C-47 troop transport aircraft in Algeria and take off. They are escorted by U.S. P-38 Lightning fighters. The C-47s swoop low over the target airfield and paratroopers jump. They secure the airport. The C-47s are seen parked back at their airfield in Algeria, having returned with no losses.
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