Post-world war II image of 4-Star General Lemay in an office with an American flag in the background. U.S. General Curtis LeMay in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 aircraft lands and taxis along. General LeMay walks from the aircraft, smoking a pipe. LeMay talks with Lieutenant General Barney Giles. Major General LeMay and a group of officers salute with a B-29 in the background. The dedication ceremony at North field in Guam and the B-29 aircraft fleet names 'Fleet Admiral Nimitz'. People look on as photographers take pictures of General H H Arnold, Major General Lawrence Cuter and Major General LeMay as they stand beside the ' Fleet Admiral Nimitz'. A B-29 aircraft taxis and takes off. Flakes burst in the air.
United States soldiers aboard a Liberty ship underway in the Pacific Ocean towards the end of World War II. A ship at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Installations at the harbor. Tugs underway at sea as smoke comes out from the smoke stacks of the tugs. An aircraft flies over the harbor. United States soldiers aboard the Liberty ship. A man at the bridge of the ship. Officers aboard the ship. An officer looks through binoculars. A tug underway alongside the ship. A soldier climbs up a landing net and comes aboard the ship. The tug maneuvers the ship into Pearl harbor. The ship passes a lighthouse and buoys. Breakwater extends across the sea as the ship approaches the harbor.
Unloading operations at Manila Harbor in the Philippines towards the end of World War II. A DUKW at the harbor. A view of buildings at the harbor. Damaged houses in the town. Jeeps and horse carts move on the roads of the city. Soldiers walk on a road. A sign in English on a building. A horse cart crosses to other side of the road. A section of the road under construction. Rubble spread outside a building. The DUKW in the harbor area as a Filipino soldier unloads bags from the DUKW. The bags stacked up at the harbor. Wooden crates piled up. A DUKW loaded with bags moves away.
Clear aerial views of midtown and lower Manhattan, New York City 1930, but with smoke coming from Hudson River pier of New York Harbor where the North German Lloyd liner Munchen (sometimes Muenchen or München) is seen on fire, shortly after docking in New York after the voyage from Bremen, Germany. Ship emits smoke and fire at the pier. Firefighters spray water to extinguish fire. Views of the piers and slips and dock areas on the Hudson River at New York City and close up views of the firefighters battling the blaze on the Muenchen. The ship subsequently sank at dock. She was raised later in 1930, repaired in dry dock, and returned to service under the new name SS General von Steuben. The ship was sunk in 1945 by the S-13 submarine of the Soviet Union.
Japanese kamikaze suicide pilot divers attack hospital ship USS Comfort (AH-6), during action off Okinawa, Japan. Damaged USS Comfort. A sign : 'U.S. Navy ship, USS Comfort'. Wounded nurses and casualties are carried and transfered to a van. Burial services are held at a military cemetery on Guam: coffins draped with the flags of the United States are carried to the cemetery. The nurses who treated the casualties shown mourning. The flag draped coffins. Graves of the Americans and the flag of the United States at the Guam cemetery. (World War II period).
The Steamship, SS Marine Flasher, arriving in the port of New York after voyage from Bremen, Germany . She is assisted by several tugboats. Her passengers, include many refugees,including former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. A number have benefited from President Truman's December 22, 1945 Directive giving preference to Displaced Persons in obtaining visas. Passengers crowd the deck and wave enthusiastically. Brief glimpse of a ferry boat passing behind the Marine Flasher. The ship has nautical flags and flags of various nations displayed aloft. (World War II period).
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