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.
307th bombardment group during the Korean War in Okinawa, Japan. A man with a clipboard walks in front of the crew standing in line. Airmen in queue are standing in front of a B-29 Superfortress plane. The man with clipboard calls on roll and the crew members respond to him. Men put on parachutes and help each other fasten the straps. Men pick other equipment from ground and walk towards the plane in line. Men get in the plane and the pilot shows signal by hand out from the window. Propellers of plane starts and the pilot is looking out from the side window and gives signals. 'No smoking within 100 meters' sign on the plane.
Shows a friendly baseball game between U.S. 307th Bomb Group Ground Crew and Combat Crew. Combat crew emerges as the winner Losing soldiers pay bills to winning soldiers after the game to pay off bets. (World War II period).
Shows U.S. General Knudsen and fellow American soldiers and officers in conversation at Henderson Field in Guadalcanal. A distant explosion in an ammunition dump occurs 5 minutes after the departure of the General, and is caught on camera. (World War II period).
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