Activities aboard the USS Bayfield (APA 33) prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima. A man plays a portable organ for a church service. U.S. Marines and Coast Guards sing hymns at the church service. A man in dungarees and two marines sing at the service. A chaplain conducts the church service.
Activities aboard the USS Bayfield (APA 33) prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima. Sea as seen from the USS Bayfield. Rigging on a life raft. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) is rigged out over the side in the foreground. A convoy of APs underway. An LCVP in right foreground. Three transporters underway. A 5 inch open gun mount 38 in the foreground.
USS Bayfield, APA 33 underway in the Pacific Ocean prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima. Three transporter ships underway. Two marines open and mount a 5 inch / 38 caliber gun in the foreground.
USS Bayfield, APA 33 underway in the Pacific Ocean prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima. Two FM 3 aircraft fly above the Bayfield.
USS Bayfield APA 33 underway in the Pacific Ocean prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima. A marine officer comes on the bridge of the ship and looks through a stadiometer. The officer stands looks through binoculars. A conning officer takes bearing with a bearing circle on the peloris. A gunnery officer, with binoculars, works at a control station. The Gun Battery control.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Yalta conference in Ukraine. American and Russian troops meet at Elbe River in Aerial views of destroyed buildings in Berlin, Germany. German officers sign surrender documents in Rheims. President Harry S. Truman, Stalin and Churchill meet at Potsdam conference in Germany. American troops fight in Iwo Jima, Japan. American flag raised. Aerial views of ruins in Tokyo. (World War II period).