Wounded U.S. Marines during Allied invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan in World War II. Wounded soldier being carried on stretchers for medical aid. Blood plasma being administered to a wounded Marine. A sign reads 'Hospital 5th Marine Division'. Wounded Marines on litters being carried away for medical aid. Doctors perform operations and work on wounds of the Marines. Wounded aboard landing crafts as they leave the coast and move into the sea. Hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9) at sea. The wounded being loaded aboard the ship.
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).
7th War Bond drive opens at Times Square in New York City, during World War 2. A large number of people gathered at the occasion. Crowd gathered around a statue of the flag raising on Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan. (This is the original plaster edition created by sculptor Dr. Felix W. de Weldon, which served as the model for the future Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington Virginia). Soldiers seated as they look at the flag raising statue. Three survivors of the flag raising raise the American flag at the ceremony to promote the sale of bonds during the 7th War Bond drive: Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and PhM 2/c John H. Bradley, USN.
American air attack on Japanese cities during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress aircraft in flight as it drops bombs over an airplane factory in Nagasaki. Bombs impact and billows of smoke rise up. A map depicts the air strike on Tokyo by U.S. aircraft that took off from Saipan, Mariana Islands. During an American air attack on Iwo Jima, Japan U.S. Army Air Force P-51 Mustangs shoot down Japanese aircraft. A Japanese airplane descends as smoke rises. B-29 aircraft in formation flight as bombs are being dropped and smoke rises. A damaged B-29 comes in for landing at an air base. The damaged B-29 aircraft. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft lined up at an air field.
Invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by United States during World War II. United States Marines aboard a ship as they head towards Iwo Jima. A Catholic Mass being conducted aboard USS Talladega (APA-208). Marines with their heads lowered as a Chaplain conducts mass. Marines read from a holy book. Marines relax on the deck of the ship.
Invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by United States during World War II. United States Marines aboard a ship as they head towards Iwo Jima. Marines debark into a landing craft from a ship. Marines climb down a landing net and and get into small barges to go ashore to Iwo Jima. Marines come down the net and into a barge. Marines loaded in a LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) and in a LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) as they head towards the beach.