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U.S Army soldiers repairing a field wire and loading ammunition in trucks during World War 2

A film on the workings of Air Force Service Group. Their role in keeping remote air force landing strips supplied and in repairing and salvaging damaged airplanes and equipment during World War II is demonstrated. A small airplane in flight low overhead and it drops a parachute with important aerial reconnaissance photographs to an Air Service Center. Soldiers process the photographs. Other soldiers look at the photographs. Soldiers repairing a break in a field wire. A soldier keeps a watch for the enemy. Messages are send in the field with the help of the field wire and an encoding machine. Other soldiers after receiving messages typing them and decoding them. An officer looking at a document. Resources of the center are mobilized. A soldier talking over a phone. U.S. Army Ordnance Company soldiers loading and packing 50 caliber ammunition belts and loading them into boxes. The boxes are loaded in trucks.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076666
A U.S. Navy training film about controlling malaria among United States soldiers in the Pacific during World War II

At start, this film shows a U.S. Military tent camp somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II. Heavy rains create breeding grounds for Anopheles mosquitos as seen when a Navy technician holds up a sample of water containing mosquito larvae. A jeep rides through mud, creating road ruts that become mosquito breeding grounds, which are seen swarming around them. Two scenes of bulldozers is being used to destroy soft surface, rutted roads. One employs a disc harrow. Closeup of the discs. Two men step under barbed wire and look at sign reading: "Use Authorized roads only." Scene shifts to American infantry moving cautiously through the jungles and engaging Japanese with hand grenades and small arms. A field clinic where a malaria patient is being treated. A soldier uses a sprayer inside his tent quarters to kill mosquitos. Troops marching back to a field headquarters, benefitting from taking precautions against malaria.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077566
U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bombers bombard Japan and Japanese attack U.S. airfield in Saipan during World War II.

U.S. aircraft bombard Japan during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 aircraft on an airstrip in Saipan. Pilots being briefed by Brigadier General Emmett O' Donell. Officers make final checks about the mission on a map. B-29 aircraft take off for the bombing mission. Aircraft in formation flight. Bombs being dropped on Tokyo and smoke rises as bombs impact. Aircraft return to the air base after the mission. Smoke rises from the airfield as a result of Japanese attack. B-29 aircraft on fire and smoke rises. A Japanese bomber aircraft goes into a kamikaze suicide dive. Smoke rises from the airfield. Wreckage of B-29 aircraft.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078189
U.S. warships, including an Aircraft carrier, underway in Pacific during World War II. Japanese aircraft shot down.

U.S. warships fire at a Japanese aircraft overhead, during World War 2. Tracers are seen against the blue sky. The aircraft is hit and falls in white smoke. Several U.S. warships are seen underway, including an aircraft carrier.

Date: 1944
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065676
American Forces advance against Japanese held areas of New Guinea during World War II.

Animated map shows U.S. forces extending control in the Pacific the the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in the Pacific during World War 2. An American soldier sentry near a destroyed Japanese reinforced concrete bunker. Another looks at a destroyed Japanese coastal gun. More American soldiers looking over destroyed Japanese coastal defenses. A destroyed Japanese type 95 HA-GO tank. A U.S. troops look at a destroyed Japanese Mitsubishi G4M (Betty) bombers on a captured airfield. Animated map of New Guinea.showing Allied advance to Hollandia. U.S. aircraft carriers with their aircraft flying overhead. Closeup from behind of a Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft taking off from a carrier. Formations of U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft in flight overhead. Escort aircraft carriers (called "Jeep" carriers by the narrator) are seen with decks full of airplanes. Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft taxiing on a carrier deck. An F6F fighter plane taking off. A formation of Douglas SBD Dauntless airplanes viewed from above, flying over the sea. Gun camera films from U.S. aircraft strafing parked airplanes on Japanese airfields.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067287
Battle for Marshall Islands. Japanese aircraft are downed by U.S. aircraft carrier's guns in the Pacific during World War II

U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle for the Marshall Islands in World War 2. A tractor towing a U.S. Navy fighter aircraft F6F Hellcat with wings folded, along carrier flight deck.. Two ordnance men pushing cart with a 500 pound bomb, along the deck. At dawn U.S. Navy SBD Dauntless aircraft take off in semidarkness. Fire from their engine exhausts visible. Clouds of smoke rising and a large explosion occurs as Japanese aircraft attack U.S. ships.. A gun crew at an anti aircraft gun on the deck. Japanese aircraft flying overhead, in flames. U.S. sailors firing at Japanese aircraft in flight. Another Japanese aircraft shot down by carrier's antiaircraft fire. It crashes into the sea. A large explosion occurs in the water. A Japanese aircraft in low flight drops a torpedoe. A Japanese aircraft is shot down. Another Japanese aircraft is shot down and crashes in carrier's wake. SBDs and F6F aircraft parked on the deck of the carrier.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069936