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Japanese invasion of Aleutian Islands during World War II
Animated map shows Northern Pacific with line from Japan to the Aleutians and thence to the West coast of the United States. View zooms in on the Aleutian Islands. View, from Japanese transport ship, of several Japanese warships underway in Northern Pacific ocean during World War 2. Japanese Naval officer steering in the wheelhouse of the ship. A light cruiser and two more warships in a column. A company of Japanese marines receive instructions from an officer and board a landing craft.View of marines in landing craft, underway, with their rifles resting on the gunnels.
U.S. Navy Seabee Construction Battalions build a base at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands during World War II.
Activities of the Seabees in the Aleutians, during World War II. Units of Seabees are ordered to the Aleutians. An animated map shows the Dutch Harbor. Ship carrying Seabees in a bay, with snow capped mountains in the background. The Seabee Battalions at the base construction site : Surveyers at work. Huge explosion demolishes a cliff. Steam shovels work on cliff face. Bulldozer creating a road. Concrete bucket being loaded. Seabees work on reinforced concrete wall, with frame of reinforcing bar visible. A huge yard filled with construction materials. Carpenters build a structure with lumber, using hand saw and hammer. View of the completed major U.S. Navy base. Seabees work to repair a damaged U.S. destroyer. The USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) seen at sea. Views of other ships in the region.
Japanese forces landing on Kiska, Aleutian Islands, during World War II
Japanese No. 3 Special Landing Party of 500 Imperial Marines are seen landing and proceeding inland on Kiska, Aleutian Islands. They carry the rising sun flag. They are seen searching two captured Americans from the U.S. Naval Weather Detachment. The rising sun flag is seen in right foreground. The Japanese troops continue walking across the island. Buildings of the weather detachment seen in background.The Japanese troops assemble in formations near the weather detachment buildings as their commander addresses them. A Japanese Type 97, 4EFB (Mavis) flying boat seen taxiing into the bay and being tended by Small boats. (Reportedly, the Tail code "O" identifies the seaplane's unit as Taiwan-based Toko-tai, also active in Solomon islands.)
Japanese warships fire at U.S. aircraft off Kiska, Aleutian Islands, during World War II
View of a motorboat heading toward an Japanese Imperial Navy Niagra-class light cruiser anchored near a submarine, in waters off Kiska,in the Aleutian Islands, during World War 2. Scene shifts to Japanese naval guns firing. A U.S. Army Air forces B-24 Liberator bomber is seen in flight overhead. Explosion and smoke fills scene next to Japanese camera ship, and then another bomb explodes in the water nearby. A Japanese submarine and destroyer are in the background. Japanese ship fires anti-aircraft guns at a U.S. PBY-5 Catalina in flight overhead. Camera follows flight of the Catalina past ship's funnel which is emitting black smoke. Another bomb hits water near the ship. More anti-aircraft fire is seen from the ship. The Catalina turns away, with a slight trail of smoke behind. Next, a large explosion is seen from a bomb striking near the shore. A Catalina, flying toward the camera ship, passes over a hill, through black flak clouds, and is struck. It descends, emitting trailing puffs of black smoke and strikes the shoreline in an explosion and black smoke.
Crew of Japanese light cruiser battle weather and ice in Aleutian waters during World War II
Stern deck of Japanese light cruiser awash as she makes way in heavy seas near Aleutians during World War 2. Japanese sailors breaking ice from her deck. Deck life lines, anchor chain, and stanchions covered in ice. End of deck gun barrel enclosed with canvas cover. Mountainous snow-covered terrain nearby in background. Officers on bridge of the ship. Closeup of one using binoculars.
Japanese Imperial Navy warships in Aleutian waters in wintertime, during World War II
Japanese Imperial Navy ships encounter severe icing conditions in Aleutian waters during winter, World War 2. Thick layer of ice covering everything on the deck of a Japanese light cruiser. Sailors chop ice from a container on deck and shake ice loose from guy lines. Ice sculpted by wind and wave on the foredeck. Two forward turrets and their single 5.5 inch guns covered in ice. Looking from starboard, towards the stern, a Mitsubishi F1M2 (Pete) scout observation plane can be seen mounted on the ship. Another light cruiser seen well astern. More views of ice covering a ship and of sailors chopping it away.