Activities of U.S. soldiers on Tarawa in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. General wreckage on Tarawa. Wreckage along the beach of Tarawa. Men carry supplies in barges at a pier. Dug in positions on the beach. Men in fox holes. Damaged buildings in the background. Trees in the background.
Activities of U.S. Marines on Tarawa in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Two marines look at a damaged Japanese motorcycle. Natives walk on a street. Captain Louis Hayward and other soldiers guard the natives. The natives move down a road. A jeep moves along the side of the road. Barbed wire barriers off the beach. Japanese coastal defense guns. Damaged Japanese gun emplacement in the foreground.
Activities of U.S. Marines on Tarawa in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A damaged Japanese coastal defense gun. A man looks at the damaged gun. The man crawls up a platform and looks at the damage. Shells on the deck for the gun.
Activities of U.S. Marines on Tarawa in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A man stands near the entrance to a Japanese pillbox. The damaged Japanese pillbox. Dead bodies of marines lying on the beach. Dead bodies lying near a damaged LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel). Other dead marine lying on barbed wires. A damaged LCVP in the background. Two airplanes in flight overhead. The marines look at damaged tanks. An arm of a dead marine. The marines dig out a tank from the beach.
General Bernard Montgomery in Paestum Area, Italy during World War 2 British General Bernard Montgomery arrives at a U.S. Army encampment in Italy, via a DUKW (amphibious truck). He jumps down from the vehicle and is greeted by U.S. General Mark Clark, Commanding General of the U.S. 5th Army.. Members of General Montgomery's staff and others accompanying him also jump off the DUKW. Montgomery and Clark both climb aboard General Clark's jeep, which displays four stars on its bumper. The Generals walk together into an encampment, exchanging salutes with soldiers they pass. Closeups of Clark and Montgomery standing in camp area of trees and foliage. Montgomery speaks to a smiling group of American officers, and then turns to leave with General Clark.
Opening scene shows American soldiers gathered around a C-47 transport plane on a desert field in Oran, Algeria during World War 2. They walk away en masse from the plane. Another C-47 is seen with tail number tail number 42-23507 (Records show this aircraft was delivered to Oran on May 20, 1943 and supported Operation Torch- The Italian Campaign of World War 2.) Scene shifts to interior of a C-47 rigged as an air evacuation aircraft, with wounded American soldiers in stacked bunks on both sides of the aircraft. A nurse and corpsmen are attending to the wounded. Two soldiers carry one of the wounded soldiers on a litter to the aircraft door. View from the outside of the soldier being carried by others to a waiting field ambulance. More views of the wounded being transferred from the plane to waiting ambulances. Scene shifts to ambulances parked on the desert field with a large Red Cross flag above them. A Curtiss P-40 fighter plane taxis past the camera. A large open field tent with a large Red Cross flag flying above it. Nurses and medical corpsmen tend to wounded soldiers lying in ambulances. A nurse serves water to some wounded.
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