Russian soldiers in Moscow, Russia. Russian soldiers parade and stand at attention as Russia's activities since declaring war on Japan later in World War II. Marshal Joseph Stalin with another official at balcony of a building. The Kremlin in the background.
Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. U.S. 5th Division Marines near an artillery as they fire at a Japanese emplacement on Mount Suribachi. The marines fire an artillery. Explosion on the mountain. Smoke rises due to explosion. The U.S. Marines fire an artillery. Explosions in the foreground. U.S. Navy ships underway. The marines fire guns on the deck. Explosion in water and water splashes. The marines fire on Mount Suribachi. The marine in prone position fire guns and advance. The U.S. Medial Corps carry a wounded marine on a stretcher. The medics treat the wounded. Dead Japanese soldiers. The marines fire guns. Smoke rises on the mountain. A U.S. Navy dive bomber in flight and drop bombs on Mount Suribachi. The bombers in flight drop bombs. Explosions on Suribachi. The bombers in flight. U.S. Marines advance towards the caves of Japanese soldiers on the mountain. U.S. Marines capture Mount Suribachi. U.S. Navy ships underway. The marines raises U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi.
U.S. Marine Commander of Wake Island, James Devereux returns from Japan in Washington DC. Paddy son of Commander James wait at a railroad station to greet his father. A close up of Paddy. James Devereux gets off the train. His son greets him. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, head of marine corps greets Devereux at the station. James Devereux with his son Paddy poses. Under Secretary of Navy Artemus L. Gates awards him the Navy Cross. Men in the background take pictures. Gates shakes hands with James Devereux. Paddy looks at him. Paddy shakes hands with his father.
The Battle of Okinawa in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A group of U.S. Marines at a command post looks at a chart of a combat area. A Marine looking through a binocular. Another Marine stands holding the binocular and other stand behind him. U.S. Marines in a foxhole. A Marine in a partial foxhole with a mortar. The Marines in a trench look out over an open valley with binoculars. Smoke columns rise in a distance due to mortar fire. Marine communications squad lays telephone wires toward advance position. The Marines laying the wires. A group of Marines seated discuss and one of them puts on a mask. The Marine advance. A Marine carries mortar parts on his shoulders. A USMC (United States Marine Corps) sniper with a telescopic lens on a rifle shoots across the valley. The Mortar Squad firing. Phosphorous smoke shells hit the ground in the open valley and lay a smoke screen. A Marine speaks over a telephone and another smokes a cigar.
The Battle of Okinawa in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. U.S. Marine command post men lying flat on the ground. The Marines advance across an open field. A Marine advancing in the open field. Three Marines at a command post near the top of a ridge. A tank advancing in the background.
Reconstruction of Saipan airfield in the Mariana Islands by American soldiers. Damaged hangars on Saipan airfield due to bombings by Japan. Men beside bulldozers parked in an area. A bulldozer clearing the airstrip. Men set detonation charges on the ground. The bulldozers at work in the background. The charges going off resulting in explosions. Power shovels, bucket elevators and trucks used to reconstruct the airstrip. Equipment at work on the airstrip. Narrow gauge flatcars are loaded with supplies by a crane. The flatcars moving on a path. The supplies are unloaded. A man beside a flatcar. Men beside equipment clearing the airstrip. Two U.S. soldiers sitting on a track and one of them writes 'B & O Express' on the back of a rail cart. The men shake hands. A man beside a rail cart of drums on a track. Men stand on materials in rail carts and the rail carts move. Several tents in view. (World War II period).