Activities of the U.S. Navy during the Battle of Iwo Jima in Japan during World War II. U.S. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, U.S. Navy Admiral Richmond Turner and U.S. Marine Corps General Holland Smith on flag bridge of USS Eldorado. They watch the target area through binoculars and discuss amongst themselves. Secretary of the Navy smokes a pipe. Mount Suribachi in view in the foreground.
Allied Officials arrive for the Malta Conference (Code Word: Argonaut, Phase I Cricket)during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 of Air Transport Command arrives at Luqa Airfield, Malta. It taxis to the Allied Air Terminal where Major General John E. Hull deplanes and is greeted on the tarmac. After exchanging greetings with those meeting him, he is taken away in a staff car. Another arrival is Lieutenant General Holland Smith, USMC. who is also greeted and departs in a staff car. Ambassador Averell Harriman and another diplomat arrive, on yet, another airplane, and are duly greeted at the Allied Air Terminal on Luqa airport, Malta
A two star general, probably Lunsford Errett Oliver, gives field awards to soldiers of the US Fifth Armored Division in Hoensbroek, Netherlands (Holland.) Soldiers lined up for field awards. General salutes soldiers in front and pins medals on them. Assembled soldiers receive brief instructions and then disband.