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Air-Sea rescue and accident during World War II in the Pacific Theater of operations

Celebes, Netherlands East Indies (NEI). Air-Sea Rescue June 11, 1945. View from low flying aircraft of a 13th Air Force B-24 ditched in Japanese-controlled waters off the coast of Celebes, NEI. A Catalina PBY flying boat of the Jungle Air Force's 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron, lands and picks up the B-24 crew. However, as it takes off on the water, it founders and crashes, killing three men. An accompanying PBY lands immediately and picks up all survivors who are aboard a rubber raft. Crew members on the wing of the PBY, help survivors aboard.

Date: 1945, June 11
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041658
War Correspondents and photographers in PacificTheater during World War Two. Surrender of Japanese at Truk, Caroline Islands

American combat correspondents and photographers in Pacific Theater during Second World War. Close up of American flag flying over a U.S. military cemetery. A sailor kneels before a cross marking the burial site of a comrade. War correspondent types report on portable typewriter. Combat photographer loading film in his camera. Photographer developing film in dark room. Scene shifts to the event photographed, which is Japanese Lieutenant General Shunzaburo Mugikura, Commanding General, Japanese 31st Army, on board USS Portland (CA-33), signing document of surrender for the Japanese base at Truk, Caroline Islands, 2 September 1945.

Date: 1945, September 2
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053287
Japanese paper balloon which was used to attack North America in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

Japanese Paper Balloon or fire balloon used to attack on North America in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Japanese paper balloon or fire balloon bomb in flight over field in the Pacific Theater. The paper balloon descends to the ground. Diagrammatic presentation of the mechanism of the wind velocity when the balloon is in flight.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072435
Worldwide operations of United States Coast Guard in World War 2

Overseas activities of United States Coast Guard in World War II. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry,LCI(L) 617,part of LCI Flotilla 22 in World War 2. She is seen underway in rough waters of the Pacific ocean during 1945.Coast Guardsman ordered to Battle stations. A Coast Guardsman observes approaching enemy aircraft through binoculars. Coast guard gunner fires Antiaircraft guns using foot trigger. Enemy plane crashes in ocean. A Coast Guardsman signals using semaphore flags. Beachhead supply operations. Coast Guard Picket Boat, CG-42022, seen patrolling around U.S. transport ships in a Persian port, while they carry lend lease supplies to the Soviet Union.Coast Guard combat patrol in jungle using canines. The Cactus (A) Class 180 foot buoy tender, USCGC Tupelo placing a buoy at sea. Releasing a weather balloon. A Coast Guard wooden 83 foot cutter ("83 footer"). Loading a Coast Guard B-24 aircraft on Guam. The plane takes off. Invasion task force of U.S. warships underway. Coast Guard crews at various duty stations aboard their ships during the war.. The former luxury liner, SS Manhattan,underway, her decks crowded with troops, following her conversion into the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Wakefield (AP-21). U.S. Navy attack transport,USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at sea in the Pacific. Coast Guard operating transport ships unloading cargo for Allied invasion forces and running inter-island shipping service in the Pacific, during World War II.Landing Ship Tank (LST-788) arriving at the beach next to Landing Ship Medium, LSM-242, on Iwo Jima. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) being driven off LST-760. USS LCI(L)-87, Flagship of LCI Flotilla 10. Her Captain, M. E. Imlay, USCG, is seen on her bridge, before departing from England for the Normandy invasion. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L)-668 at beach and troops wading ashore.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041741
Under General Douglas MacArthur command the Allied troops capture Leyte Islands from the Japanese.

The life of General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur on captured islands in the Pacific theater. Gen. Douglas confers and walks with other commanders. Animated map shows Allied advance from New Guinea Islands towards the Philippine Islands. General Douglas in conference with President Roosevelt, and Admiral Nimitz. MacArthur points at a map and explains his plan of action. In accordance to the plan the Allied convoy sails towards Leyte Islands. Fight at the islands. Behind naval bombardment the allied troops land on the island. MacArthur's face is iluminated by intermittent light from Naval Gunfire at night as he watches the landing from a battleship. In daylight, MacArthur on deck with with a three-star general, as he smokes his corn cob pipe. Allied troops establish a beachead on Leyte. General MacArthur gets off an Landing ship and wades ashore. Allied troops move towards Manila. Block-by-block fighting against Japanese forces in Manila. American paratroops jump and land on Corregidor. MacArthur and his staff stroll down a street in Manila. He visits the prison camps and speaks with joyful, liberated, former prisoners of the Japanese. MacArthur salutes as the American Flag is raised over Corregidor. Image of atomic bomb explosion. MacArthur gets off a plane wearing 5 stars. Scenes of Japanese surrender ceremony aboard the Battleship Missouri at end of World War 2 in 1945. MacArthur gives an address to conclude the proceedings. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 7 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033587
Wounded soldiers treated aboard hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9) during Pacific campaign of World War 2

Portrays the suffering of wounded U.S. soldiers in action during a Pacific campaign in World War II. Shows naval air transport plane in action for transporting severe cases to hospital in the Pacific Theater. Wounded soldier being carried on a stretcher. Wounded soldiers loaded aboard army transport aircraft parked on an airfield. Wounded soldier lying on stretchers and beds aboard hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9) at anchor off the coast. Nurse and doctor examine wounded men. A wounded soldier gets a head massage. Operation theater aboard hospital ship and soldiers with severe wounds on arms and legs being operated by surgeons. Patient on wheel chair being pushed on deck of USS Bountiful. Wounded soldiers on deck of ship relax and smoke. Blood stained faces of soldiers.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060306