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Bulldozers, power shovels and trucks at work during the reconstruction of Saipan airfield in the Mariana Islands.
Reconstruction of Saipan airfield in the Mariana Islands by American soldiers. Damaged hangars on Saipan airfield due to bombings by Japan. Men beside bulldozers parked in an area. A bulldozer clearing the airstrip. Men set detonation charges on the ground. The bulldozers at work in the background. The charges going off resulting in explosions. Power shovels, bucket elevators and trucks used to reconstruct the airstrip. Equipment at work on the airstrip. Narrow gauge flatcars are loaded with supplies by a crane. The flatcars moving on a path. The supplies are unloaded. A man beside a flatcar. Men beside equipment clearing the airstrip. Two U.S. soldiers sitting on a track and one of them writes 'B & O Express' on the back of a rail cart. The men shake hands. A man beside a rail cart of drums on a track. Men stand on materials in rail carts and the rail carts move. Several tents in view. (World War II period).
USS Balao tying up at Saipan in the Pacific Ocean.
USS Balao underway in the Pacific Ocean. Sunset view. The submarine underway. Bow of the submarine. Other ships underway and mountains in the foreground. The submarine approaching Saipan. A boat along the side of the submarine. Men aboard the boat and the submarine. USS Balao tying up at Saipan and handing out mail. Men aboard a tender watching the submarine. USS Balao underway leaving Saipan. Submarine underway.
USS Sea Owl leaves the dock in Saipan and gets underway in the Pacific Ocean.
USS Sea Owl at the dock in Saipan, Pacific Ocean. The submarine comes alongside the dock in Saipan and moors. Jeeps parked at the dock. Buildings in the background. Officers and sailors working aboard the submarine. The submarine backs out from the dock in Saipan. USS Sea Owl underway. A signalman with blinker light. Officer with binoculars in the background. Signalman with hand signal flags in the foreground.
A U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bomber takes off from Isley Field, Saipan in the, Marianas Islands during World War II.
View from nose canopy of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber, as it taxis behind another at Isley Field, Saipan, during World War 2. Next, the B-29 is on the active runway, accelerating for takeoff.
B-29's of the 73rd Bomb Wing on Saipan at end of World War 2
United States Army Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft of the 73rd Bomb Wing, 500th Bomb Group (Tail Code "Z") seen on Saipan. A B-29 aircraft taxis and turns on a runway. A rainbow in the sky. A B-29 being moved with a tug. Ground handling of a B-29 aircraft. An airman direct a pilot to the parking spot. A group of airmen stands near the parked aircraft. On its fuselage below the cockpit, it displays a black bird's wing on top of a black globe and a long yellow paint stripe underneath. The airmen take equipment out of the aircraft and haul it away in a cart. Three B-29 aircraft parked.
B-29 Superfortress aircraft on Tinian Island, and Saipan, Marianas Islands , during World War II.
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.