America forces begin preparing Saipan as an advance base in the Pacific campaign against Japan in World War 2. Japanese military prisoners as well as civilian women and children are seated on the ground, shaded by a tree on a coastal plain in Saipan. American officers review a map laid out on the hood of a jeep. They converse in a group as they stand near a rudimentary small gauge railroad track in the sand. Sheer cliffs are close behind them and the ocean is nearby. A jeep is seen parked and another moves along a bumpy path. Officers and soldiers stand on and near the small gauge rail line. Several jeeps are parked. Camera pans over sheer cliffs behind. (Some contain openings that housed Japanese fortifications.) Camera pans over wide flat area where the Japanese were building an airfield near Marpi Point on the northern end of the island of Saipan. Construction materials cover the area and several jeeps travel through it. Final scene shows more Japanese civilians in a group where several American soldiers are attending to their needs.
Camera pans past body of fallen Japanese soldier to U.S. Marines spread out along a shoreline as landing craft maneuver nearby and an American aircraft flies low overhead. Japanese prisoners along with women and children walk in a line. Glimpse of body of a dead Japanese soldier. Another group of Japanese prisoners and civilians. Several stand near American soldiers looking out at the small craft maneuvering offshore. A man (interpreter) speaks into a microphone, giving instructions to the Japanese persons on the shore. Body of dead Japanese woman. Bodies of numerous dead Japanese soldiers along the shore. Japanese prisoners with shovels begin recovering the bodies, placing them on makeshift litters and carrying them away.
Naval and air battles in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Japanese attacks on USS Yorktown (CV-10). Japanese aircraft in the sky. Flak filled sky. An aircraft is hit. The flaming aircraft spirals downwards. A huge explosion near the ship as an aircraft crashes in water near it. Personnel run on the deck of the ship. Wounded are carried on litters. Fire fighters get ready to fight flames aboard the ship. Hurried activity of men on the ship. Hole in side of ship USS Yorktown.
Naval and air battles in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Japanese attacks on USS Yorktown. Japanese aircraft in the sky. A flaming aircraft spirals downwards. An explosion as the aircraft crashes. Hurried activity of men aboard the ship as they dodge Kamikaze (suicide airplanes) attacks.
Naval and air battles in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Japanese bomb attacks on USS Hancock. Japanese aircraft in sky. Explosions aboard the ship. The whole ship is engulfed in smoke. Thick black smoke and bursts of flame rise from the ship. Men on the deck of a ship sailing past USS Hancock in the foreground. The ship engulfed in smoke.
Naval and air battles in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Japanese bomb attacks on USS Newcomb. USS Newcomb underway at sea. Explosions in water. Thick clouds of smoke rise up. Men on the deck of the ship. Aerial view of the deck. Wreckage caused by the attack.
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