An American landing craft hit by Japanese. United States 2nd Marine Division sailors fire mortars at Japanese infantry to flush them out from dugouts in Tarawa during World War II. Heavy firing takes place. Marines and tanks move up. General Holland Smith and Julian Smith inspect positions. A loader clears up debris and mud. Japanese prisoners made to march by marines. Wounded marines given blood plasma. Other wounded marines on litters pulled up onto a ship for medical aid.
Dead bodies of United States 2nd Marine Division sailors on a beach in Tarawa, of the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bodies of Marines killed in battle seen floating at the beach. Some of the dead buried at sea. Caskets covered with American flag buried at sea as honor guard fire rifles. Two Chaplains conduct burial service on board a ship.
United States 2nd Marine Division sailors cut through clothes of Japanese prisoners and search them for weapons at Tarawa in Pacific Theater during World War II. Prisoners given first aid. Japanese tanks and debris cleared up.
Construction of an airstrip at Tarawa in Pacific Ocean during World War II. Planes land and pilots congratulate the marines.
United States 900th Airborne Engineers construct an airstrip in Tamu, Burma. A man operates a bulldozer at the construction site of an airstrip. A small tractor and a grader used as a P-51 plane lands at the airstrip.
A United States P-51A Mustang fighter plane of the 1st Air Commandos, flown by Lieutenant Colonel Grant Mahony, lands at an airstrip in Tamu, Burma. Colonel Phil Cochrane and Lieutenant Colonel Arvid Olson inspect the airstrip constructed by United States 900th Airborne Engineers in World War II. P-51 Mustang takes off.
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