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U.S. forces assist native people on Saipan and Guam in the Mariana Islands after capturing them during World War II.

U.S. forces on Saipan and Guam in the Mariana Islands during World War II. Native women and children are liberated by U.S. Marines on Saipan island. American military hospitals provide medical care in Guam. U.S. Navy doctors and native nurses treat the sick. Food is distributed to native children.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073842
U.S. Marines in LVTs and LCVPs as they head towards the coast of Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II.

United States Marines during Allied operations in Guam, Mariana Islands, World War II. LVTs (Landing Vehicles Tracked) underway in the Pacific Ocean. A ship at sea. Smoke rises in the background. A puff of smoke rises upwards. LVTs and LCVPs (Landing Crafts Vehicle Personnel) underway at sea. U.S. Marines loaded onto LVTs and LCVPs as they head for the Guam coast. A LST (Landing Ship Tank) at sea as a LVT enters the LST.

Date: 1944, July 27
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059622
Blood donated in United States for wounded soldiers in Pacific Theater.

United States troops receive whole blood from home in Pacific Theater. An animated map shows boxes of blood flown from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor, Guam, and Leyte. Vehicles parked outside a Red Cross center. A woman donates blood. A nurse sits near her. Blood is kept in portable refrigerators. 'Human blood' written on the boxes. Plane lands in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The boxes are unloaded. The crew loads the boxes onto another plane. The boxes arrive in planes Guam. The blood boxes arrive at Base Hospital and are kept in refrigerators. Wounded soldier receives blood in Leyte, Philippines. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, November
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053487
U.S. Navy Assault Force advances while U.S. aircraft bomb Japanese air bases and shore installations on Tinian Island.

USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The carrier advances towards the Mariana Islands. On the eve of battle, soldiers scrub up to lessen the danger of infection in case they're wounded. Sailors clean up, bathe and rest. Priests conduct services aboard the ship. Sailors take communion and pray. Crewmen read and sleep on their bunks. The carrier underway at dusk. Cooks and bakers prepare a hearty meal of stakes and eggs. Officers take their meal at a table. The alarm goes off to warn of an enemy attack. Sailors rush to their battle stations. Bombardment by Japanese torpedo bomber planes. Fire due to explosions around the ships. Black smoke rises up into the air. Anti aircraft fire from the U.S. ships, planes are hit and descend towards the water. The alarm sounds, pilots rush and board planes and take off. The Radio Plotting Room in charge Smokey and other operators tracks down enemy planes. A map depicts Japanese air bases and military installations in the Mariana Islands, including the Japanese fortified Guam. Radio operators at work. U.S. planes in flight. They swoop down upon Tinian Island and bomb enemy installations. Explosions due to bombardment. Shore installations and air bases bombed. Craters on the island. The U.S. Assault Force battleships including USS Colorado, USS Tennessee and USS Pennsylvania advance. Explosions due to enemy fire. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 6 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021564
Highlights of the Allied New Guinea campaign and other Pacific battles against the Japanese in World War II

The Allied campaign across New Guinea and onward to the Philippines during World War 2. U.S. warships firing their guns at night. Flashes illuminate the blackness. Bombs dropping from an aircraft bomb bay. Bombs exploding on stretch of jungle near water. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 bomber in flight View rearward from very low flying USAAF bomber as it bombs it drops explode behind. U.S. troops making amphibious assault on New Guinea. Map showing path of Allied attacks from Australia, across New Guinea from Port Moresby to Buna and on to the Admiralty Islands, cutting off Japanese-held Rabaul, New Britain. Map shows Allied forces moving towards Japanese strongholds at Wewak and along the North shore of New Guinea and bypassing Wewak to strike at Hollandia. General Douglas MacArthur is seen aboard a U.S. warship conferring with American and Philippine officers. Annimated map shows Allied assaults on Japanese positions along the coast from Hollandia, to Warde, Biak, and beyond, stepping along towards the Philippines. Views of numerous fallen Japanese soldiers numbering more than 150 thousand dead. Crosses in battlefield cemetery at graves of some of the more than 13 thousand Allied military who lost their lives during the campaign. A soldier paying respects at one of the gravesites. Admiral Chester Nimitz with members of his staff at his headquarters in Hawaii. U.S. Navy F4F aircraft launching from an American aircraft carrier. American aircraft bombing Japanese positions on an atoll. U.S. warships bombarding Japanese positions with their heavy guns. Admiral Nimitz standing with Admiral William Halsey. More Navy gunfire and amphibious assault scenes. Map showing places where Allied forces had to battle the Japanese, including, Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, Kwajalein, in the Marshals, Saipan, and Guam in the Marianas, and Palau to complete the "bridging" of the Pacific to the doorstep of the Philippines.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028169
Sailors aboard the USS New Mexico, recover fired gun powder casings, during World War II

Activity aboard United States battleship New Mexico before the invasion of Guam during World War 2. U.S. Sailors aboard the New Mexico recover fired and hot 5-inch powder cases in cans on board the ship. They place and stack cans on the deck of the ship.

Date: 1944, July 3
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049303