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American Navy PT boat patrols the coastline during invasion Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska

American Navy transport and cargo ships off the coast of Attu at Aleutian Island in Alaska. A Navy PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat cuts through choppy waters as it patrols the coastline. Mountains of Attu in the background.

Location: Aleutian Islands Alaska USA
Date: 1943, November 16
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058381
Molten metal used to make 1000 pound bombs in United States

Manufacture process of a 1000 pound bomb shell cases in United States. Metal processed from molten to solid under high temperature conditions. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058383
Bombs are machined in United States

1000 pound bomb shell cases cut to size in United States. Workers place shells onto a machine and cut them into size. Metal shells heated and shaped. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058384
Final assembly and inspection of 1000 pound bombs in United States.

1000 pound bomb shell cases put onto machines and undergo final processing in United States. Rings put around the shells. Bomb shell cases stacked in warehouse where an Army officer inspects them. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058385
Film about Difficulties of amphibious Assaults in World War II. Montage of invasion scenes.

Opening scene shows large stores of military supplies needed to support invasion forces in various areas during World War 2. An American C-47 transport airplane taking off from a field in a desert area. Local people with a donkey and cart in foreground. View from within a formation of U.S. B-17 flying fortress bombers flying above clouds. View shifts to the bombers silhouetted against clouds below. Complete change of scene to amphibious forces in action. Two American Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft fly just above the water at high speed to attack enemy shore positions in the Pacific. Close-up of one as it appears above the camera. Sections of a city separated by a body of water, somewhere in Europe. Huge quantities of war materiel stored on a beach in Italy, with mountains in background. Truck convoys transporting supplies away from the area. Landing Ships Tank (LSTs) sit at water’s edge with their bow doors open. One is American LST-350. Large mountain in background. Small multi-masted boats without sails, at an inlet in background. Soldiers are busy unloading equipment and supplies from the LSTs. View from above of cranes on barges loading landing craft with supplies at an established pier. Close-ups of LSTs being offloaded by American soldiers. Troops look out portholes of a transport ship. A number of Higgins Boats pulled up to the shore where trucks are lined up. Solders on a DUKW (amphibious truck 6x6) equipped with an A-frame crane. More views of the port showing a caterpillar bulldozer pulling trailers of supplies, and trucks. A large transport ship tied up at an established port, where it unloads a British Crusader tank. View into the hold of the ship where a number of Crusader tanks are stowed next to one another. Ships of an invasion task off Italy, silhouetted against a sunrise (or sunset). Views from a ship, of Allied minesweepers at work, in the flotilla. A twin funnel P2-SE2-R1 class troop transport ship is seen in the background. A formation of landing craft approaching the beach. Close-up view from beach of one beaching through surf and soldiers charging ashore. A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft flying low over the landing craft. Another landing craft (Higgins boat) hitting the beach and soldiers charging ashore. Next, several USAAF Curtiss P-40 aircraft fly low over the beach. A dog accompanying troops leaving a Higgins boat, has trouble walking across the cross-hatched ramp on the boat. More views of loaded landing craft speeding toward the beach and soldiers running ashore. Soldiers digging foxholes in sandy soil of an orchard of trees. At one point, they all take cover in their foxholes as air attack threatens. Glimpse of troops crouched in a ditch as explosion occurs nearby. (Note: Some of the later scenes in this film show troops in training exercises.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Location: Italy
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058393
American Amphibious Task Force 9 at Adak and Kiska in Aleutian Island, Alaska

United States Amphibious Task Force 9 soldiers wade through water and board Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) at Adak in Aleutian Island, Alaska and craft pull away from the beach. LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) head beach wards and soldiers disembark from landing craft tanks and wade through water to land at Kiska. Two ships in harbor, two others in distance. Men on a ship tie a net around a crate with "Army dog" marked on it. Crate hoisted over side of the ship and lowered to awaiting barge. (World War II period).

Location: Aleutian Islands Alaska USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058403
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