Bombardment of Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan as seen from the deck of an American destroyer underway off the Iwo Jima Coast. Large smoke columns obscure island and Mount Suribachi. Gun flashes in the foreground. Turrets of USS Wiley fires. Mount Suribachi under bombardment. Gun flashes and tracer fire in the foreground. U.S. battleships and destroyer off Iwo Jima bombard the coast. (World War II period).
Animated map of Tokyo, Iwo Jima, and Saipen. Arrows show attack on Iwo Jima. Aerial view of the island. Ships of United States Navy 5th fleet seen in the region. Numerous views of U.S. Navy ships shelling Japanese targets on Iwo Jima Island, with naval guns and rocket barrage. Smoke and explosions seen. View on a U.S. Navy landing craft after it is hit by a Japanese shell. Dead U.S. sailor on the deck of the ship. View of Aircraft Carrier in region. A U.S. fighter aircraft crash lands on the deck of the carrier. A U.S. plane crashes in ocean right beside a U.S. ship and sinks, but the pilot is thrown clear and is seen swimming. Crewmen on a nearby U.S. Navy destroyer ship throw a rescue ring buoy to the pilot of a fighter aircraft that crashed in the ocean. The pilot is returned from the rescue ship to his aircraft carrier via breeches buoy line between the ships.
Seven days after D-day in the Battle of Iwo Jima. Wreckage of American amphibious craft and war materiel in aftermath of amphibious assault by U.S. marines on Iwo Jima during World War 2. A solitary U.S. Marine climbs over section of wrecked Higgins Boat (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel-LCVP) on the shore of Iwo Jima. An undamaged Landing Craft Infantry Large--LCI(L) seen in in water in background. Closeup of the wrecked Higgins Boat. Camera shifts focus to some wrecked Landing Vehicles Tracked at the water's edge. Wreckage of a landing craft stenciled: "L5V2-13." The surf inundating the wreckage. A jeep mired in sand at the water edge. A jumble of broken boats and parts in the surf.
Destroyed American armor and U.S. marine casualties, on Iwo Jima in World War 2. Views of several Wrecked landing vehicles tracked (LVT) overturned on sands of Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Body of a marine under wreck of LVT(A)-1. Smoke rising in distance. LVTs racing across a flat area of Iwo Jima. U.S. marines carrying a wounded one on a stretcher. They place him down on the ground and check his wounds. Closeup of the wounded marine, speaking to them.
United States Marine Corps move for raid on Japanese island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Amphibious Landing Vehicles with large number of marines move speedily towards the beach of Iwo Jima. Fleet of amphibious tractors, ships and war boats racing for the coast. Smoke from explosions around the LCVs and at the beach line of Iwo Jima. Tides in sea waters by LCVs movement.
"Iwo Base Against Japan" showsU.S. Army trucks, vehicles and other supplies being unloaded from an American ship in Iwo Jima island during World War 2. Construction work being carried on to build an advanced base on the island. Vehicles getting stuck in volcanic ash beach areas and being pulled out by bulldozers. Construction of Motoyama airfield number 2. U.S. P-51 Mustangs taking off for escort of American B-29 bomber aircraft in bombing raid over Tokyo, Japan. United States P-51 aircraft shoots down enemy Japanese planes and escorts B-29 to raid Tokyo Japan. 200 pound general purpose bombs are dropped over Tokyo causing fire and smoke. Damaged B-29 Superfortress aircraft return to American air base at Iwo Jima. Flack damage and engine damage shown on several B-29 aircraft after landing at Iwo Jima. Aircraft are repaired.