Soldiers loading patients and casualties on Douglas DC-3 transport plane on Iwo Jima during World War II. Wounded United States Marines with their faces covered in bandages lying on stretchers. A Navy nurse checks on a patient before boarding the medical transport plane. The nurse talks to the patient. Soldiers carry and place wounded Marines aboard a Douglas DC-3 transport plane for air evacuation. The Douglas DC-3 transport plane taxis and takes off.
Soldiers lay injured Marines down on the ground on Iwo Jima during World War II. A wounded U.S. Marine lying on stretcher talks to a soldier. A wounded Marine on stretcher is given a whole blood transfusion. A medic holds blood transfusion bottle. The medic talks to the Marine receiving a transfusion. Soldiers placing wounded Marines aboard a Douglas DC-3 transport plane for medical air evacuation. The Douglas DC-3 transport plane taxis and takes off from the airfield. Some Jeeps drive in the foreground.
U.S. Navy sailors putting out fire on the forward portion of the USS Saratoga (CV-3)’s flight deck after a kamikaze attack on the night fighter carrier during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. A huge fire engulfs the flight deck and wreckage of Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft. A heavy smoke partially obscures the view of the damaged Battery One and the flight deck. Jets of water putting out fire on deck. An accompanying destroyer of the USS Saratoga maneuvers to lay anti-aircraft fire on the attacking Kamikaze planes. View of the USS Saratoga captured from an accompanying destroyer before the Kamikaze attack. A sailor transfers between ships using a breeches buoy. A black patch from Kamikaze attack near the waterline is seen. A sailor holds onto breeches buoy as he transfers between ships, with strong waves below. Smoke rises from the flight deck of the USS Saratoga after its first hit by a Kamikaze. Fire growing from the forward portion of the flight deck.
Animation depicts Okinawa in relation to Japan,China,Formosa, and Iwo Jima. U.S. landing ships carry troops who make unopposed landings on Hagushi beach, U.S. troops seen pouring ashore. Okinawa. Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner and Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance seen looking through binoculars on the deck of the amphibious Flag Ship. U.S. troops move inland from the beachhead. Troops bringing bulldozers. U.S. Army infantry of the 24th Corps engage Japanese defenders. Japanese bunkers and fortifications seen. U.S. battleships and other ships of the line begin intense bombardment of the Japanese positions. U.S. army artillery fire large howitzers. U.S. tanks attack Japanese fortifications and suffer counter fire. Troop movements impeded by rain and mud. Ammunition ships seen having difficulty on congested beachhead. Animation shows how naval gunfire could successfully strike Japanese fortified positions because of flat trajectory. (World War II period).
The Pacific Theater of World War II. A United States Navy ship cruising towards Iwo Jima attacked by Kamikaze planes of Imperial Japan. Kamikaze planes dive bombing toward US Navy ships. Huge ship anti aircraft guns on warships fire at the Japanese planes. Explosions on the ships and in the ocean. View as kamikaze aircraft is hit by anti-aircraft fire but continues on its path and strikes the USS Saratoga (CV-3), causing large explosion and smoke billowing upward. US Navy sailors fight fires and try to extinguish fire.
From gun camera, tracers are seen as pilot strafes a compound on the ground in Iwo Jima, during World War II. He fires at installation on tip of island, with water on two sides. Smoke rises from the exploding rounds on the ground.