A film titled 'This is Guadalcanal' about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. A map of Guadalcanal. An officer speaks about the role of U.S. Marines during the battle. He also speaks about the role of civilians that helped the Marines in winning the battle in Guadalcanal. The Marines embark onto a ship and it pulls away from a harbor in San Francisco. View of buildings of skyline of city of San Francisco as seen from moving ship. The Golden Gate Bridge in the background. A U.S. invasion fleet underway in the Pacific Ocean. Officers confer aboard a ship. A signal man at a blinker light. He exchanges a signal with another ship. Naval guns bombard the coast of Guadalcanal and smoke rises from the coast. The Marines come down a landing net and board landing crafts. The landing crafts head towards a beach. Waves break at a shore. The Marines land at a beach. Faces of Marines as the disembark from landing craft. Supplies being unloaded from the landing crafts. Supply crates and gasoline barrels stacked up on the beach. Barbed wire fences on the beach. The Marine in gun emplacements and fox holes.
A film about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. A deserted Japanese camp. Tents in the camp area. A U.S. Sergeant shows a Japanese uniform that helped them to camouflage in a jungle. He holds American and Japanese rifles to show the difference between the two. The Sergeant puts on climbing spikes used by the Japanese. He climbs up a coconut tree.
A film about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. Marines demonstrate Japanese weapons. A Marine fires a Japanese flame thrower. A Japanese artillery piece. The Marines fire machine guns and artillery.
A film about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. Marines march ahead on the island. Henderson Field after being captured by the Marines. The American flag being raised at the field. The Marines salute. Shell crates on the field. A gun emplacement on the field. Rollers and other mechanized equipment are used to level surface and make a runway at the airfield. An aircraft taxis at the field. U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft parked at the field.
A film about Allied campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific, at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Colonel Thomas of the United States Marine Corps briefs U.S. Marines about an operational plan. The Marines loaded in jeeps and command cars advance inland. They move across a jungle and then onto a hilltop ridge that later was named "Blood Ridge" due to fierce fighting there. A man looks through a sighting instrument at an observation post. Gun emplacements and foxholes are established. A Marine looks at a picture of an American girl that he has at his campsite. U.S. Marines fire a 105 mm gun. An aircraft spotter looks through a sighting instrument and spots Japanese aircraft in flight. Japanese bombers in flight. Antiaircraft guns are fired by American forces. Japanese airplane is hit. The airplane plunges toward the ground with smoke streaming behind it and the airplane crashes. Machine guns being fired at the Japanese aircraft. Another Japanese aircraft is hit and the aircraft crashes into water. Men at Henderson Field. Wrecked American aircraft. Aerial view of Henderson Field.
A film about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Wounded U.S. Marines being loaded aboard an aircraft to be taken to an island in the Pacific for medical aid. The Marines with minor injuries recover at a field hospital in Guadalcanal. A Marine opens a refrigerator. The Marines bathe and wash in a river. A cook bakes biscuits. The Marines eat food. They look at a bulletin board.
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