A United States campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. A sign reads 'Hospital station'. Marines seated in chairs outside the hospital tent. The Marines talk, relax and recuperate at the hospital. Technicians look into a microscope.
United States Marines in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The Marines gathered outside a tent. A man blows a trumpet. The Marines advance on foot across an area. Two rifles in the foreground as the Marines advance. They advance across a field.
United States Marines Corps leave Australia to invade Solomon islands during World War II. Marines get off a railroad train. Marines carrying combat gear march to a port. Ships in the background. Marines walk up a gangway. Marines embark onto a ship.
United States Marines Corps on their way to invade Solomon islands during World War II. A convoy of ships underway at sea. A signalman sends blinker signal. Marines aboard a ship. Marines at rails aboard a ship. A convoy of ships underway at sea.
A film underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. U.S. soldiers land on an island in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. The soldiers try to eliminate the black hole made by a tent opening by using a blanket. U.S. 5th Army in Italy. To remove shadows of oil tanks, engineers use steel wool on chicken wire. Soldiers use natural vegetation to camouflage artillery in Anzio, Italy. In Casino, U.S. soldiers use bare trees to hide vehicles. U.S. soldiers in Sicily. A garnished fish net is draped over a tank to hide it. At Anzio beach troops dig a trench to hide a tank and then cover it with hay. Soldiers try to camouflage a jeep.
A film underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. The film shows camouflaged aerodromes which are covered with chicken wire and feathers in jungles of the Solomon Islands. A man opens a window of an Italian hot dog stand which was actually a German pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as a farmhouse. A U.S. Army soldier handles mats of a matted house. A soldier looks at windows painted on a pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as an entertainment outlet. A dummy building which hides a bridge. A German airfield disguised as a decoy village in Belgium. Buildings in the village. A jeep drives on a road in the village. Men move a sliding wall of a phony building. Helmets and shirts on branches to appear as dummy soldiers. A man near a dummy soldier. Vehicles roll past in France. An artillery piece hidden in thick vegetation. U.S. soldiers watching the film in a theater in the United States.