United States Army Air Force operations in the Mariana Islands during World War II. Men sitting on a jeep. A man stands beside the jeep. Two men sit in the jeep. Men run in one direction as an aircraft crashes. Three men stand and watch the aircraft landing. They turn in the same way.
United States Army Air Force operations in the Mariana Islands during World War II. Aerial view of a flat terrain. Aerial view of a forest area. Bombs are dropped on the forest area. The bombs burst through trees.
View of a B-29 fuselage painted with cartoon bird and lettering: 'The B.A.Bird' written beside it. [This aircraft, Serial number 42-93896, and Tail Code "Circle X, (unseen) belongs to the 1st Squadron, 9th Bomb Group, 313th Bomb Wing stationed on North Field, Tinian. Its aircraft commander is Captain Wendell W. Hutchison, and one of its Crew Chiefs is Sergeant Chester Ziel.] Next seen are B-29s on Saipan, in the Marianas Islands in World War 2 . Numerous United States B-29s parked on the field with plain "V" tail codes, indicating 20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 499th Bombardment Group. A Group of B-29 Superfortress bombers in formation over the airbase. A B-29 lands on the runway.
Atomic bombing mission in Japan by the United States Army Air Force, during World War II. A U.S. military base in North Field, Tinian Island in Mariana Islands, South Pacific. A group of U.S. Navy and Army Air Force officers stand in front of a B-29 bomber and talk to each other. The name of the B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' painted on the nose of the bomber.
War Correspondents on Saipan, Marianas Islands during World War II. Interior of war correspondent's quarters. Correspondents typing documents and playing cards. Some correspondents rest on their cots.
U.S. Navy LST-789 at a beach in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Two men aboard LST-789 (Landing Ship Tank) as they take mooring lined off pair of bitts. A soldier takes a lens and starts looking through light. The soldier cleans the lens. Two cameramen as one cleans a part of the lens and other types the data sheet. Two LSTs with their bows at the beach and cargo doors open. A 6X6 truck drives by in the foreground. The bow section of LST-789 and men rest on the ground in the foreground. Men come down the ramp into the LST carrying their cargo bags. Two men take mooring line off bitts aboard the LST and start to heave in line. The LST-789 backs away from the beach flanked by two LSTs in the background.