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Marines with dogs standing beside damaged buildings and Marines operating TBX radio at Peleliu, Palau Islands.

U.S. Marine Corps Communication activities at Peleliu, Palau Islands. Marine Regiment Command Post (CP) moving in, damaged buildings all around. Marines with dogs standing beside damaged building. TBX radio set at Regiment C.P. Damaged building in the background. Marines sitting in dugout, operating TBX radio, shelter half put up over dugout. Operator of TBX radio set sending message inside dugout. TBX radio network set up at Regiment HQ. Operator of TBX radio set with earphones. A message is written and delivered to a runner.

Date: 1945, September 20
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071790
5th Marine Regiment work on situation map and attach wires to frame on doorway at Peleliu, Palau Islands.

U.S. Marine Corps Communication activities at Peleliu, Palau Islands. Interior of 5th Marine Regiment Command Post (CP). Marine works on situation map. Another Marine at desk working on overlay. Views of the map. Marines working on wires loading to switch board attaching them to frame on doorway. Marines in building. Marine writing message, another Marine operates switchboard. Views of switchboard.

Date: 1945, September 20
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071791
U.S. 5th Marines 2nd Battalion observe target area and operate BC-1306 radio set at Peleliu, Palau Islands.

U.S. Marine Corps Communication activities at Peleliu, Palau Islands. Forward observation party, for 75mm pack How, U.S. 5th Marines 2nd Battalion, with binoculars, other men sitting in jungle. Marine observer watches fire through binoculars. Large body of water in background. Target area observer in the foreground silhouetted against sky. Operator of BC-1306 radio set sending message using hand crank generator. Shell bursts, smoke rising skyward. Shell burst in water. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, September 20
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071792
U.S. President Harry S Truman and other men look at Iwo Jima statue at White House in Washington DC.

Iwo Jima statue at White House in Washington DC. U.S. President Harry S Truman and sculptor look at Iwo Jima statue at White House. President Truman and other men look over Iwo Jima miniature statue. A Marine officer points out on Iwo Jima miniature statue. President Truman looks at statue.

Date: 1945
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071793
Damaged buildings, factories, homes and ruins in Nuremberg, Germany.

Bomb damage in Nuremberg, Germany. Aerial views of Nuremberg city including buildings, homes, industries and rail lines. Damaged buildings and factories. Damaged homes and ruins. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071920
Japanese bomb balloons bound for the United States are shot down; examination of parachute and bomb apparatus

Evaluation of Japanese bomb-carrying balloons sent across the Pacific to the United States by Japan during World War 2. Gun camera footage of American fighter planes from Aleutian Island bases firing at Japanese balloons en route to the Pacific coast of the United States. A balloon bomb which reached the shores of the United States. but did not explode is examined by United States Army soldiers. They unfold the rice paper parachute portion of the balloon and examine its construction. Close-up views of the balloon control mechanism are shown, including a circular frame that would hold anti-personnel and incendiary bombs. Details of the wet cell battery and ballast weights are shown, including barometric aneroid switches which would operate to release ballast from simple hooks, as needed, to control balloon altitude. Narrator indicates it is believed the main purpose of the bombs was to start brush and forest fires.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071921