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Camouflage techniques used by Japanese snipers in jungle against U.S. Marines deployed on Pacific islands during World War II.

Training film titled 'Notes on Jungle Warfare' on deployment of U.S. Marine Corps on islands of Pacific during World War II. U.S. Marines advance inland into jungle after disembarking from amphibious vehicles. Wounded and dead Marines lying on beach. Crosses at a cemetery. Marines caring for a wounded man. Jeep is driven in the jungle. Marine comes out of a foxhole. Japanese prisoners marching under guard on an island. U.S. Commander in Chief of Pacific Ocean Areas Chester Nimitz decorates a soldier. U.S. platoon advance into jungle. Camouflage techniques used by Japanese snipers in jungle shows an isolated U.S. Marine attacked by a sniper hiding under bushes. U.S. Marines counter such Japanese tricks and techniques by setting his own traps. Platoon leader sends a signal for location of sniper. Second U.S. platoon moves ahead. Shows two Marines find a dead sniper. Japanese sniper fires from a spider trap. Sniper is handled by grenade attack. Soldiers in foxhole are shot down.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060320
U.S. TBF Avenger torpedo bomber being loaded with bombs on the deck of USS Lexington (CV-16) underway in the Atlantic Ocean.

Activities aboard USS Lexington (CV-16) underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Deck of USS Lexington (CV-16) shows U.S. Navy SBD Dauntless dive bomber planes being towed. Crew members moving bombs on hand carts. Armorers pull bombs off the bomb elevator. Man wheels depth charge on small cart. Two men arm machine guns.The aircraft displays a miniature Japanese flag, painted beside the cockpit, to indicate an enemy kill. Men raise 500 lb. bomb into TBF. Men load depth charges into TBF. Man wheels 500 lb. bomb down the flight deck.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060438
A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls of a B-24 Liberator and six B-25 Mitchells in flight over the Palau Island.

U.S. air raids on the Palau Islands in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) B-24 Liberator bomber formations of the 31st Squadron, 5th Bomb Group in flight over a target area. Interior of an aircraft. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls in the aircraft. A bombardier gets set for a bomb run. Explosions and smoke rises from the target area. Six USAAF B-25 Mitchells in flight over the target area. The aircraft drop bombs over the area. Smoke rises due to explosions.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062194
A Japanese officer briefs Japanese pilots before the take off for the air attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

Japanese air attacks over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during World War II. A relief map shows Japan, China, the U.S. and the Philippine Islands. An arrow on the relief map point from Japan to the Hawaiian Islands. Two Japanese aircraft carriers underway in the Pacific Ocean. A section of the deck of a Japanese ship. Anti-aircraft guns on the side of the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Two Japanese officers conversing. Sailors in the background. Japanese pilots being orientated by a Japanese officer. A group of Japanese pilots around the officer. Japanese Navy Nakajima B5N 'Kates' aircraft engines are warming up. The pilots stand in a semi-circle around a senior officer. The sailors remove chucks from under the wheels of 'Kates'. A sailor waves a white flag. Japanese Navy Aichi D3A 'Vals' aircraft take off in formation. An aerial formation of the 'Vals'. A flag fluttering on the mast of a Japanese ship. Clouds in the sky. An aerial formation of 'Kates'. Japanese insignia on a Japanese plane. Airplanes in flight over Wheeler Army Airfield in Hawaii. Bombs explode on a runway of the airfield. Smoke rises from a hangar and the runway. Smoke rises from the docks at Pearl Harbor due to bombardment by the Japanese airplanes. Several Japanese destroyers underway.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062212
Worldwide operations of United States Coast Guard in World War 2

Overseas activities of United States Coast Guard in World War II. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L) 617, part of LCI Flotilla 22 in World War 2. She is seen underway in rough waters of the Pacific ocean during 1945. Coast Guardsman ordered to Battle stations. A Coast Guardsman observes approaching enemy aircraft through binoculars. Coast guard gunner fires Antiaircraft guns using foot trigger. Enemy aircraft crashes in ocean. A Coast Guardsman signals using semaphore flags. Beachhead supply operations. Coast Guard Picket Boat, CG-42022, seen patrolling around U.S. transport ships in a Persian port, while they carry lend lease supplies to the Soviet Union. Coast Guard combat patrol in jungle using canines (dogs). The Cactus (A) Class 180 foot buoy tender, USCGC Tupelo placing a buoy at sea. Releasing a weather balloon. A Coast Guard wooden 83 foot cutter ("83 footer"). Loading a Coast Guard B-24 aircraft on Guam. The plane takes off. Invasion task force of U.S. warships underway. Coast Guard crews at various duty stations aboard their ships during the war. The former luxury ocean liner, SS Manhattan underway, her decks crowded with troops, following her conversion into the U.S.Coast Guard-manned USS Wakefield (AP-21). U.S. Navy attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at sea in the Pacific. Coast Guard operating transport ships unloading cargo for Allied invasion forces and running inter-island shipping service in the Pacific, during World War II.Landing Ship Tank (LST-788) arriving at the beach next to Landing Ship Medium, LSM-242, on Iwo Jima. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) being driven off LST-760. USS LCI(L)-87, Flagship of LCI Flotilla 10. Her Captain, M. E. Imlay, USCG, is seen on her bridge, before departing from England for the Normandy invasion. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L)-668 at beach and troops wading ashore.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041741
Various types of aircraft land on flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific, during World War II

A United States Navy aircraft carrier underway in Pacific ocean during World War 2. Numerous carrier landings are shown, involviing F6Fs, TBMs, and SB2C aircraft . There are no mishaps, and only one aircraft is seen getting a wave-off and going around. The various aircraft approach and land in a mixed sequence of the different types.

Date: 1944, October 26
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042079