Vietnamese women and children at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens (2B Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) in Saigon, Vietnam. Vietnamese children visit the zoo. They look at a python in the cage. Children drink an energy drink. United States soldiers take pictures of the Vietnamese children. Vehicles parked in front of the City Hall building. Men ride bicycles. Board reads Capitol Military Assistance Command'. Antennas on roof of the building. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 1st Marine division riflemen advance cautiously behind Sherman M4 tanks on a trail through heavy jungle in Talasea, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, during World War 2. Tank crews fire their guns point blank at Japanese positions. Marine in tank turret fires machine gun. Tanks rake side of trail with gunfire as they lead riflemen along the trail. They pass a metal building in Japanese installation.
Marines of U.S. 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, advance toward Talasea, New Britain in World War 2. Marines load and fire 75mm Howitzer. A tank stuck on a dirt road. The Marines dig around the tank's tread. The Marines give first aid to a wounded man. Two Marines seated with bandaged faces and legs. Dead Japanese soldiers on the ground. A shrine in the jungle.
Activities on deck of the USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) underway in the Pacific during World War 2. Several marines, wearing flotation belts, stand next to some sailors in helmets and life vests, on the ship's deck in a convoy headed toward Peleliu, Palau Islands, during Operation Stalemate II. Other ships in the convoy can be seen ahead of them. Camera pans across the deck where Marines and sailors are standing in clusters. View from below, of crew members and two Bofors 40mm twin mount anti aircraft guns, silhouetted against the sky. One crew member wears headset and speaks in microphone. A camouflaged Mahan-class destroyer passes the Gunston hall. Sailors spray water overboard, from hoses. Officers and crew members in routine activities.
The USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) in the waters off Peleliu, Palau Islands, during World War 2. Officers reading orders and briefing Marines on deck. Closeups of marines and officer reading the orders. Sailors shooting the sun with sextants. Other invasion task force ships seen from the Gunston Hall
1st Tank Battalion of the United States Marine Corps arrives at Peleliu Island, Palau during World War 2. Opening scene shows USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) with her docking well open, as viewed from stern of a landing craft, moving away from her. A landing craft infantry gunboat, LCI(G) is also seen. Scene shifts to U.S. Marines on deck of a ship, relaxing and tossing an object amongst themselves,. View from beach, where Marines are hunkered down next to a landing vehicle tracked (LVT) as an M4 Sherman tank approaches with fording stacks installed. The tank turns around and heads away from the beach. View, again from the beach as several more Shermans, also equipped for deep wading (Stack Fording Kit MT-S, installed) approach the beach. One tank, onshore, starts backing towards the water as a DUKW amphibious vehicle, hit by Japanese gun fire, is seen burning in the water, just short of the beach.
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