Preparing fighter planes for strike missions against Japan, Island of Saipan, Mariana Islands in World War II. P-47 Thunderbolts serviced and readied for strafing, dive bombing, and fire bomb strikes by U.S. personnel on Aslito Airfield. 318th Fighter Group Commander Colonel L. M. Sanders discusses the next strike with 19th Squadron Commander Major Harry McAfee. Pilots are briefed by officer. Men preparing planes for strike missions. A man holding Japanese flag. Man working on wing of P-47 Thunderbolt fighter. Soldier loads 50 cal machine gun belt onto aircraft. Demolition bombs transported on airfield. Men loads bombs and rockets onto a P-47.
B-29 bombers arrive at Saipan in Mariana Islands during World War II. B-29 bomber aircrafts of the 11th Commanding Unit of the United States Army Air Force land at Isley Field in Saipan. Airfield personnel watch keenly as a plane makes landing on the runway. The plane takes a left turn and follows a guide jeep.
United States Army Air Force at the Isley Field base in Saipan in Mariana Island, South Pacific during World War II. Station Hospital at the base. GIs in beds in the Quonset hut. A Power Shovel digs a hill near the base. Coral from the hill loaded in a truck by a Shovel. Trucks transport the loaded coral through a rough mountainous terrain. Crops in farmlands near the base.
A line of landing craft silhouetted on the horizon. An explosion on the shore behind them. Camera pans from beach, across a bay to a beached landing craft, and then back past some damaged huts, to a destroyed Japanese motorcycle that an American marine examines. A marine climbs through a damaged Japanese wooden structure. A marine examines a knocked out Japanese 1st Yokosuka SNLF Type 2 Ka Mi Amphibious tank
Damaged buildings on Saipan Islands during World War II. A Japanese tank on fire. A sign on a tank reads 'Bataan Bound'. Smoke rises from an area. A damaged Japanese aircraft in revetment. Wrecked hangar with a steel frame structure. A damaged building. Debris spread outside the building. Piled up crates and bundles of paper. Captured Japanese books and documents. Books in a cupboard.
Unloading supplies in Saipan Islands during World War II. Jeeps and trucks on the beach. Smoke rises from the background. Men unload supplies from a LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized). A sling in a hoist being lowered in a truck. A man operates a crane as it picks up a wooden plank. Shells on ground. Wrecked equipment lying on ground. Soldiers load supply boxes onto a LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked).