Refine Your Search

North Pole 1959 stock footage and images

- Showing 3469 to 3474 of 3740 results
Enemy bombers raid the Isley Field base of U.S. Army Air Force in Saipan in Mariana Islands, during World War II.

United States Army Air Force at the Isley Field base in Saipan in Mariana Island, South Pacific during World War II. Mechanics stand on scaffold to reach the engines of a B-29 bomber. Air raid siren sounds. Mechanics jump on ground and run towards shelter beneath a bunker covered with mud sacks. Soldiers at the anti-aircraft gun post, fire with a 50 caliber anti aircraft gun, following course of enemy plane. Gunners turn the gun following the aerial path of the enemy bomber. GIs lined in a chow line outside a mess hall.

Date: 1944, December 6
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036251
Crewmen clean a painted B-29 bomber at the Isley Field base of U.S. Air Force in Saipan in Mariana Islands, during World War II.

United States Army Air Force at the Isley Field base in Saipan in Mariana Island, South Pacific during World War II. A B-29 bomber parked at hardstands near the runway. Painted name, 'Devil's Delight' on the nose of the plane. Wheel plate of this plane reads 'A Member of the B-29 Formation to First Bomb Tokyo'. Front side has written 'Shoot You're Faded' on the nose turret. Devil's head insignia painted on its nose. Crewmen stand on bench, working to clean the B-29.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036252
B-29 bombers bomb Japanese targets in Formosa Island (Taiwan) and return to their base in Saipan (WW2)

Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers bomb factories and other targets in Formosa Island (present day Taiwan) and return to their base in Saipan, during World War II. Crew members attach guided bombs at dawn to the bombers. The bombers take off. Flying over Formosa Island over clouds they drop bombs on Japanese targets. Antiaircraft guns fired. The B-29 lands after a successful bombing mission. Crew of the B-29 'Tokyo Rose', first plane to fly over Japanese positions, honored at the Saipan base. Insignia on the nose of the plane. Brigadier General Hansel attaches medals on the uniforms of the crew members.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037151
U.S. amphibious assaults on Saipan and Luzon during World War II

June 14, 1944. Naval guns of U.S. battleships and other warships bombard the island of Saipan, in the Marianas, in World War 2. U.S. aircraft fly low over the shore attacking Japanese military positions. A U.S. tank and marines moving on the beachhead. October 19, 1944, landing craft, manned by U.S Coast Guardsmen, from the Coast Guard operated Attack Transport USS Calloway (APA-35) are seen among others maneuvering in the water as they begin the assault on Luzon, the Philippines. U.S. troops wading ashore on Luzon.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041748
U.S. Marines remove a Japanese aerial bomb as smoke rises in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II.

United States forces in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Soldiers advance across the hillside as huge columns of smoke rise. Bomb damaged jungle area. Smoke rises in the background. A flame thrower tank and soldiers advance across the field. A U.S. Marine works on the nose of a Japanese aerial bomb embedded in the ground. Another Marine puts a chain around the bomb and a vehicle pulls out the bomb from the earth. Bomb being loaded into a truck.

Date: 1944, July 3
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059626
U.S. Marines 2nd Division hospital in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II.

United States forces in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Marines stand outside a damaged building. The U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Division hospital building. A Marine seated on the bonnet of an ambulance jeep. Marines get off the jeep. Another jeep towing a trailer arrives at the hospital. A Marine seated at a desk inside a tent. Marines outside the tent. Men around a jeep. A sign outside the hospital reads 'Receiving'. A jeep ambulance driven away. A jeep ambulance backs up. A wounded Marine on a litter being carried into a first aid tent.

Date: 1944, July 3
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059627