U.S. 4th Marine Division during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War 2. Views from Landing craft arriving at Yellow 1 Beach during U.S. amphibious assault on Iwo Jima. A sherman tank at the water's edge. The next day, two marines tend to a wounded out of sight below a bluff. One is seen holding a container of blood plasma above his head as they administer emergency treatment. A sherman flailing (crab) mine-clearing tank equipped for deep wading moves across the beach. Closeups of marines hunkered down on the beach, taking cover near armor, as they attempt to move inland. Marines and equipment covering the beachhead. Close offshore, an explosion sends water into the air. LSM-216 is seen maneuvering close to shore, attempting to bring ashore "C" Company tanks to Yellow Beach II. Marines setting a smoke screen of dense white smoke.
June 9, 1944. Sand flats seen at low tide in Normandy, France. Allied forces fighting their way inland during the Normandy invasion (Three days after D-Day) in World War II. Landing craft and destroyed buildings on the beaches of Normandy. German steel beach obstacles have been stacked out of the way. A United States Sherman DD tank sunk in sand. Badly damaged LCT-25 on the beach at Normandy, with her cargo of half-tracks still aboard and remains of the first one off, sitting at her ramp where it was hit by a German shell. Higgins Boat riddled with bullet holes. Scene shifts to January 1944 when United States Army troops descend from a troop transport ship into LCT-504 for practice maneuvers in the Chesapeake Bay. A soldier operates a Higgins Boat. Another soldier directs a Higgins Boat to the shore. Troops hit the beach in Higgins Boats driven by U.S. Coast Guardsmen from the Attack Transport ship, USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). United States troops carry equipment or belongings as they board ships to England in February 1944. Views of live aboard transport ships in convoys crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Coast Guardsmen near weapons at duty stations. Some troops are seen wearing life vests on board. Troops sleep or lie in hammocks in their quarters. Soldiers pass the time by playing cards, sleeping, reading and writing letters, and mending clothes on deck. Troops line the deck of the transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33), as the ship approaches port in England. Landing craft from the Bayfield, carrying troops, are seen in assault training exercises in England. Troops wading ashore during training. Coast Guard officers and sailors are seen aboard larger landing ships in exercises. Coast Guard officer smoking a cigar, as landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase speeds away after landing troops ashore. Trucks drive ashore from landing craft. Scene shifts to May 1944 and a formation of Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft dropping bombs on enemy targets in Normandy. Aerial view shows bombs falling.
British troops land at Marzamemi during Sicily, Italy invasion operations in World War II. Freighters and transports lying off shore. Landing barges head towards a beach. British soldiers debark. Men, equipment, vehicles and armor being unloaded at the beach. Gasoline and oil cans stacked on the beach. British soldiers form a bucket brigade as they pass more cans from an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) to the beach.
A film titled 'This is Guadalcanal' about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. A map of Guadalcanal. An officer speaks about the role of U.S. Marines during the battle. He also speaks about the role of civilians that helped the Marines in winning the battle in Guadalcanal. The Marines embark onto a ship and it pulls away from a harbor in San Francisco. View of buildings of skyline of city of San Francisco as seen from moving ship. The Golden Gate Bridge in the background. A U.S. invasion fleet underway in the Pacific Ocean. Officers confer aboard a ship. A signal man at a blinker light. He exchanges a signal with another ship. Naval guns bombard the coast of Guadalcanal and smoke rises from the coast. The Marines come down a landing net and board landing crafts. The landing crafts head towards a beach. Waves break at a shore. The Marines land at a beach. Faces of Marines as the disembark from landing craft. Supplies being unloaded from the landing crafts. Supply crates and gasoline barrels stacked up on the beach. Barbed wire fences on the beach. The Marine in gun emplacements and fox holes.
A Battalion of Nationalist Chinese troops assembled in formation on a ramp at an airbase in Formosa (Taiwan). They wear summer conical hats. Their Commander, a Major, calls them to attention and addresses them. Next, a Sergeant is seen briefing a squad of camouflaged soldiers. A landing craft stops short of a beach and Nationalist Chinese troops jump out, wade ashore, and charge across the beach. From different view, the beach is seen to have barbed wire and other obstacles on it. Smoke rises from live fire carried out at side of beach. The troops dash between obstacles and surmount a berm. Next, soldiers are seen riding atop two camouflaged U.S. M2 half-tracks, crossing a bridge, at high speed. They are followed by two U.S. Stuart M3 light tanks and infantry running behind. An infantryman running along a furrow in a cultivated field. Two infantrymen run through a rice paddy where farmer is working. One gets exhausted and falls down in the paddy. Two soldiers firing a mortar. Another soldier demonstrates throwing a hand grenade, and ducks for cover as it explodes. Three soldiers firing an M1917 Browning water-cooled machine gun. Goosestepping Nationalist Chinese troops parade along a wide dirt road, past several buildings. They raise considerable dust as they march.
Operation "Rutter,"(aka Operation Jubilee) the ill-fated Allied raid on Dieppe, France, conducted by the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division and British Commandos plus some Inter-allied commandos, during World War 2. Map highlighting Dieppe. Low-flying British Royal Air Force Spitfire aircraft attacking German positions. German gunners firing heavy field gun from a grove of trees. Batteries of German antiaircraft guns firing from positions in hillsides. Explosions close to the camera. Fortified German gunners firing quad 2 cm Flakvierling 38 antiaircraft gun. A German 8.8 cm Flak 18 antiaircraft gun in operation. Explosions on the beachhead. German soldiers at roadside, one with a hand grenade. Another huge explosion near the camera. View from inside fortified German position, as soldier fires MG42 machine gun. View through window of building as bomb or shell explodes close by. View of Allied beachhead in disarray as Allied raiders are taken prisoners of war. Several are ambulatory wounded and another is carried on a stretcher. A German Junkers Ju 88 bomber overhead, bombs an allied ship at the waterfront. Wounded Allied soldiers lying on the beach with knocked out Churchill tank and a burning landing craft behind them. Abandoned landing craft on the beach. A larger ship afire. Allied soldiers being gathered up by German soldiers. One gives a drink to an Allied soldier in a landing craft. Remnants of Allied forces being escorted as prisoners of war along a road with seaside Church of Notre-dame-de-bon-secours in the background. Some prisoners are barefoot. One is carried on a litter. Burning landing craft on the beach. Canadian soldiers march with hands raised. Views of damage to buildings in Dieppe, from bombing and shelling. Canadian prisoners of war being escorted by German guards through town. View from high point overlooking Dieppe, showing the town, with smoke rising in places, and the beach with Allied boats and equipment strewn on it.
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