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American entertainer Patty Thomas performs for servicemen in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during World War II.
American entertainers in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during World War II. Servicemen including soldiers, sailors, Marines and nurses seated enjoying the USO show. Patty Thomas dances on a stage. The audience smile as she performs.
American entertainers meet wounded soldiers at a hospital in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during World War II.
American entertainers in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during World War II. A staff car arrives and comedians Bob Hope and Jerry Colonna get off the car. Interiors of a hospital. Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Frances Langford, Patty Thomas and Tony Romano walk down the aisle between rows of bed cases. They talk to wounded soldiers. Frances Langford sings as Tony Romano plays a guitar. Jerry Colonna performs. The entertainers talk to the soldiers.
American entertainers perform for servicemen in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during World War II.
American entertainers in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during World War II. Comedian Bob Hope at a microphone. Patty Thomas walks on to the stage. She performs a dance for servicemen. Bob Hope dances with her. View of soldiers in audience enjoying the show. Bob Hope and Jerry Colonna at a microphone as they perform. Hope and Colonna with an officer at the microphone.
Bob Hope dances with Patty Thomas while performing for servicemen in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during World War II.
American entertainers of the USO in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during World War II. Patty Thomas performs a dance on a stage for servicemen. Bob Hope dances with Patty Thomas. U.S. Army soldiers and U.S. Navy sailors watch the entertainers performing.
U.S. troops capture Roi-Namur island in Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands during the Battle of Kwajalein of World War II.
U.S. troops on Roi-Namur island of the Kwajalein Atoll during the Battle of Kwajalein in World War II. Marines at a 1.1"/75 caliber gun on the deck of a ship. A fleet of U.S. Navy transports and aircraft carriers underway at sea. The cargo deck of an LST (Landing Ship, Tank). Explosions due to bombardment on Kwajalein Atoll. U.S. Marines in boats heading towards the shore. Smoke due to explosions on the beach. Troops going down the side of transport ship using a cargo net into the LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel). Ships at sea and clouds of smoke rising in the background. Marines getting down from LCVPs on the shore. A Marine fires a 3"/50 caliber gun. An amphibious craft on the shore. A U.S. Navy dive bomber SBD Dauntless in flight overhead. Explosions on the beach. An LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) underway at sea. The Marines get off an LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) and advance across the beach. Marines and a few amphibious vehicles on the beach. An LVT coming up on the beach. Two GIs firing rifles on the shore. An LST with troops on the beach. Marines load and fire 75 mm howitzers. A combat cameraman operates a camera mounted on a tripod. Marines on an airfield. An explosion occurs and dirt and rubble fly all around. Marines inside a bomb crater firing carbines. A Marine looking under a concrete slab aiming his carbine. A Marine engineer constructing a yard grenade with one end in a hole and other Marines standing around taping a fuse on it. Two Marines run away from the hole. Explosions occur. Dead Japanese soldiers lying behind a wooden screen. A partially constructed Japanese hangar with burnt canvas. A part of the tail of a Japanese bomber in view. Two soldiers beside a wrecked aircraft. One of them looking into the fuselage of the aircraft. View of the tail assembly of a wrecked Japanese bomber on an airfield. A damaged Japanese bunker. An LCVP beside a U.S. Navy ship. Wounded men being transferred from the LCVP to the ship. Church services held on a beach at Kwajalein.
Admiral Chester Nimitrz visits the flagship, USS Rocky Mount and Kwajaleln Island during World War II
Admiral Chester William Nimitz , Commander in Chief of Pacific Ocean Areas, visits flagship USS Rocky Mount and Kwajalein Island during World War 2. View from the USS Rocky Mount (AGC-3) as a U.S. Navy PB2Y Coronado seaplane approaches, lands in the water. and taxis toward it. An officer stands above steps leading aboard the ship. An unidentified small transport ship and small boat are in the background. two small launches are tied to the Rocky Mount. Admiral Chester Nimitz, Pacific fleet commander, is seen from the Rocky Mount as he ascends ladder to the ship's deck. View is looking downward from behind a Navy cinematographer. Admiral Nimitz is greeted by officers aboard the ship. Boarding the USS Rocky Mount, immediately behind Admiral Nimitz, is Lieutenant General Robert C. Richardson Jr., Commanding General of all Army personnel in the Pacific. He is also greeted by the officers on deck. Next, Rear Admiral Richmond Turner is seen boarding the Rocky Mount. (The Rocky Mount served as his flagship when he directed operations against Kwajalein.) Various views of the officers mingling and conversing on the deck. Scene shifts to Admiral Nimitz and accompanying officers posing for a photograph on the Kwajalein Island. He and members of his party are all wearing steel helmets. In one scene they are surrounded by military photographers as Admiral Turner (in garrison cap) points out areas of interest to Admiral Nimitz. Ensuing scenes show the officers examining the remains of Japanese fortifications and weapons on the island. Admiral Nimitz converses with three soldiers who have been bathing on the shore. More views of the group amidst debris on the island. They board three waiting jeeps