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Admiral Chester William Nimitz, General Richardson, and Admiral Raymond Spruance visit USS Leonard Wood

U.S. Navy fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Admiral McMorris, General Holmes, and other flag officers, are greeted by Coast Guard Captain Merlin O'Neill, Captain of the USS Leonard Wood (APA-12), as they board during inspection tour of ships anchored off Hawaii. (Captain O'Neill is wearing steel helmet.) They pose for pictures on deck. Admiral Nimitz, leaning on railing, converses with Captain O'Neill. Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Spruance, and Major General Holland M. Smith, USMC (wearing helmet) look over the edge of a 20mm gun tub. Army Brigadier General H.B. Holmes is immediately behind them, wearing a garrison cap.

Date: 1943, November 9
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071669
Scenes from Operation Flintlock in the Marshall Islands campaign of World War II

Film begins showing a two star admiral and another ship's officer conversing as they look at maps of a mission. on a deck atop the ship an officer is briefing Marines as he stands over a large map of an atoll dominated by a Japanese airfield in the Marshall Islands. In a room below decks, a senior officer discusses mission plans with members of his staff. A Filipino steward brings him a cup of coffee. On deck a sailor operates a signal light. On an aircraft carrier, Douglas Dauntless aircraft are seen being brought to the flight deck by elevator and then taking off at dusk. Glimpse of several of them joining up in formation high above. Marines are seen on deck of the transport ship USS Harry Lee (APA-10). Next, Higgins boats from the ship are being lowered over her side. Another transport ship, the USS La Salle (AP-102) is seen with some of her Higgins boats in the water beside her. Closeup of Marines and a sailor descending rope ladders from another troop transport ship, seen to be the USS Bolivar (APA-34). A Marine Colonel in a steel helmet and another officer look through binoculars. Next, U.S. navy warships begin to bombard the targeted Japanese held island with heavy guns. Sailors firing smaller guns from a ship's deck. Smoke rising from a burning ship in the distance. Scene changes to gun camera footage from American planes strafing Japanese aircraft parked on an airfield and from an American plane shooting down a Japanese aircraft in flight. More views from aircraft strafing Japanese aircraft on an airfield and another of a Japanese airplane destroyed in flight.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071825
U.S Army soldiers repairing a field wire and loading ammunition in trucks during World War 2

A film on the workings of Air Force Service Group. Their role in keeping remote air force landing strips supplied and in repairing and salvaging damaged airplanes and equipment during World War II is demonstrated. A small airplane in flight low overhead and it drops a parachute with important aerial reconnaissance photographs to an Air Service Center. Soldiers process the photographs. Other soldiers look at the photographs. Soldiers repairing a break in a field wire. A soldier keeps a watch for the enemy. Messages are send in the field with the help of the field wire and an encoding machine. Other soldiers after receiving messages typing them and decoding them. An officer looking at a document. Resources of the center are mobilized. A soldier talking over a phone. U.S. Army Ordnance Company soldiers loading and packing 50 caliber ammunition belts and loading them into boxes. The boxes are loaded in trucks.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076666
U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bombers bombard Japan during WW2

United States bombers bombard Japan during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs over Tokyo, Japan. View of Mount Fuji in Honshu Island, Japan. Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 21st Bomber Command in flight. Aerial view of bomb dropping into a Japanese town. Industrial zone being hit by bombs. General Henry H. Arnold shakes hands with an officer in Washington D.C. A message written on a bomb. Message on the bomb reads “TO THE WARLORDS OF JAPAN WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN- THE B-29’S WILL REMIND YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!”. Buildings in Tokyo, Japan. A map of Saipan. B-29 aircraft land at an airstrip in Saipan. B-29 take off for a mission. Bombs being dropped over Japanese town.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078188
U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bombers bombard Japan and Japanese attack U.S. airfield in Saipan during World War II.

U.S. aircraft bombard Japan during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 aircraft on an airstrip in Saipan. Pilots being briefed by Brigadier General Emmett O' Donell. Officers make final checks about the mission on a map. B-29 aircraft take off for the bombing mission. Aircraft in formation flight. Bombs being dropped on Tokyo and smoke rises as bombs impact. Aircraft return to the air base after the mission. Smoke rises from the airfield as a result of Japanese attack. B-29 aircraft on fire and smoke rises. A Japanese bomber aircraft goes into a kamikaze suicide dive. Smoke rises from the airfield. Wreckage of B-29 aircraft.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078189
Japanese Army and Navy Mitsubishi bombers in World War II

Opening scene shows Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21 aircraft, Army Type 97 heavy bomber (Allied code name: Sally) flying in formation. Closeup from inside an aircraft, of gunner manning machine gun in the nose. View from aircraft of Bombs falling on industrial target. View from cockpit of explosions from bomb strikes. Scene shifts to a group of Japanese Imperial Navy Mitsubishi G3M aircraft (Type 96, code named: Nell) on an airfield, with engines running. A Japanese admiral, in dress whites, speaks to pilots, who are dressed in white flight suits. The pilots then march in loose formation past an honor guard of Naval officers and sailors assembled at the entrance of a hangar. The pilots and their well-wishers exchange salutes. Some G3M airplanes take off. A formation of them silhouetted in flight overhead. View of them in formation over a cloud cover. View from a Japanese aircraft dropping bombs on targets in a river gorge.

Date: 1941
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675045808