U.S. offensives against Japan in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. A United States Carrier Task Force in the Pacific Ocean. Fighter planes and dive bombers on the deck of the Task Force. Sailors push trolleys containing bombs. A map shows Marshall Islands. Douglas Dauntless dive bombers take off to strike against the enemy. U.S. Navy fighter planes engage defending Japanese aircraft and down many of them, as seen in gun camera footage. The first wave of Douglas Dauntless dive bombers returns to its carrier for refueling, rearming, and debriefing. Sailors on the aircraft carrier man anti-aircraft guns to defend against attacking Japanese aircraft. Black flak fills the sky and a number of Japanese aircraft are destroyed by the anti-aircraft fire. A Japanese bomb explodes near the flight deck of a carrier. (Narrator notes that 85 Japanese aircraft were destroyed in this one operation.)An animated map shows New Britain Island. U.S. Major General William Henry Rupertus, Commander of U.S. Marines on a ship. He looks through a pair of binoculars as a U.S. planes (B-24 Liberators) drop bombs on Rabaul. U.S. warships launch an attack at the enemy positions. Fire and explosions. The Marines load into landing craft and move towards the shore. They land behind an intense naval bombardment. Marines head ashore from beached LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large), number 343. M 16 tanks, equipment, and artillery roll ashore from Landing Ships Tank (LSTs). . The tanks lead the way through the jungle terrain and the marines advance behind them. Marines fire mortars as they advance. They flush out Japanese from trenches and bunkers. A damaged Japanese Mitsubishi fighter plane and wreckage of others. Some dead Japanese soldiers. The Marines wade through deep water as they push on to Rabaul. Others advance through deep mud. More views of them slogging through mud.
View from a U.S. submarine anchored in a bay in the Pacific theater during World War 2. An explosion is seen at point of land in background. A team of U.S. commandos is then seen paddling an inflated raft from the shore toward the submarine.They reach the submarine and are helped aboard, along with their raft. The four commandos pose wearing their steel helmets. View from the submarine as it gets underway on the surface.
Film 'Sunset in the Pacific' shows United States Marine Corps photographers taking pictures and filming motion pictures in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Night view of a huge explosion. Two photographers shoot still pictures from behind a rock. Marines advance on beachhead. Combat cameraman with a 35 mm movie camera crawls over ground and into a trench. Flood waters flow through a valley, smashing into homes and shacks. Photographers shoot stills with speed graphic. Movie studio camera operator using 35mm motion picture film camera on platform or boom to capture motion picture film images of a American Legion Parade in New York City. Legionaries march with the American flag in hand. Two camera operators film couples dancing in a ballroom, on what appears to be a Hollywood movie set. Band plays in the background. Sailor watches as chief photographer explains working of 35mm movie camera.
Cameraman using 35mm motion picture camera takes motion pictures of natives using movie camera in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A Pacific native climbing palm tree. Small sailboat underway in a shallow harbor. Huts among palm trees on a Pacific Island. Natives cross footbridge with fishing nets and repair the nets. Men watch the native girls dancing. Women and children watch the dance. Natives walk with poles on shoulders. Man plays guitar while two native girls sit and listen to him.
U.S campaign in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Gun camera footage from American aircraft in flight over Japanese held area. The area being strafed. A hangar being strafed. The aircraft in flight fires rockets. The rockets hitting buildings. A Japanese fighter aircraft being hit in tail section. Smoke rises due to explosion. A Japanese fighter aircraft hit by machine gun fire from pursuing U.S. fighter plane and burning. More rocket fire from U.S. aircraft. Smoke rises due to explosion on the ground.
Momentary glimpse of U.S. marine standing in front of two LVTs (Landing Vehicle Tracked) as they make an amphibious assault against an island held by the Japanese, during World War two, in the Pacific theater of operations. The marine is shouting something at the combat photographer (unseen).