U.S. Marines fire machine guns during a beach assault training at White Beach, Okinawa, japan. The marines run parallel to the beach. A landing craft on the beach. A jeep moves from the landing craft onto the beach area. LVTAs (Landing Vehicles, Tracked, Armored) lined up on the beach. An LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) on the beach. An M50 Ontos tank in one of the landing craft. LVTAs fire from the beach. The marines disembark from an LCVP alongside USS Bayfield (APA-33). The marines climb up a cargo net to board USS Bayfield. Crew members of USS Bayfield pull in the cargo net to make it tighter for the marines. The crew rolls up the cargo net. A Marine 2nd Lieutenant on the deck of USS Bayfield.
2nd Battle of the Somme in France during World War 1. United States 27th Division soldiers dig graves at Duncan Post as others carry their fallen soldiers on litters. The graves are marked by many small crosses in a row and one large cross in the field. An American Army Chaplain says some words as the troops standby quietly.
The 2nd Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. View from a hill nearby,showing Troops of the 106th Infantry Regiment seated on the ground in a field for religious services . An altar is set up in front of them. Soldier directs traffic as two Allied units enter an intersection of roads at the same time. Troops of the 105th and 108th Infantry Regiments returning to Ronssoy. Buildings along the route are demolished from shelling.
United States 99th Infantry Division soldiers attempt to cross Danube in Neustadt, Germany during World War II. Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 395th Regiment of United States 99th Infantry Division rest behind the dikes. Soldiers talk and smile.
United States 99th Infantry Division soldiers attempt to cross Danube in Neustadt, Germany during World War II. Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 395th Regiment of United States 99th Infantry Division carry an assault boat as they move unopposed into the forest. Soldiers pinned down beside the assault boat in the woods to escape enemy attack. Crew fires a mortar. Medics carry a wounded soldier on litters. A soldier hurriedly digs foxhole beside an assault boat.
The capture of Garapan on Saipan in the Marianas Islands, by the Americans. American Naval and artillery bombardments destroy the last Japanese strongholds in cliffs north of Garapan city in the Mariana Islands. Infantrymen and tanks advance. An enemy sniper is burnt out. A Japanese bunker is destroyed. Machine gun crew fires and throws grenades at the enemies. Enemies on a cliff shot down. Some of the Japanese troops (and island civilians fearful of American forces) jump off cliffs to commit suicide. Troops line up the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers. Japanese troops surrender. A U.S. 2nd Marine Division cemetery. View of the names of the marines on the gravestones. (World War II period).
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