United States soldiers leave ship by companionway and embark amphibious truck DUKW in Bougainville, Solomon Islands. Soldiers aboard a ship. The amphibious truck moves away from the ship towards the island. Flat bottom vessel LST (Landing Ship, Tank) in the background. A truck loaded with lumber. Trucks loaded with lumber move to and from beached LCV (Landing Craft, Vehicle). View of the harbor. LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) in the background. A landing craft shuttle between supply ship and shore. Soldiers on beach. (World War II period).
U.S. Troops in the Solomon Islands during World War II, load munitions and supplies aboard landing craft to be carried to the troopship, USS Frederick Funston (APA-89), sitting offshore. The equipment and troops are bound for Bougainville, New Guinea, to reinforce marines there. Next, the troops themselves, in full battle gear, enter Higgins boats, to be ferried to the troopship. Closeup of troops boarding one of the landing craft. View from a landing craft heading to the Frederick Funston, seen ahead. View from the Higgins boat approaching the troopship, and then of troops climbing aboard via a rope net. Closeup of soldiers climbing the net. Change of scene shows U.S. Field Artillery unit changing position on New Georgia. They employ caterpillar tractors to move the guns. One is seen bogging down in the soft earth, so another tractor assists by pushing on the gun (possibly damaging its barrel). After arriving at the new position, they are ordered to move again, because of movements of the Japanese forces. This time, the troops pitch in and use sheer manpower to move a howitzer. Scene shifts again, to Italy, where U.S. troops attempt to ford a river on the road from, Benevento, to Caserta, after German forces destroyed all bridges along it. A truck is seen successfully crossing after combat engineers created a path for it. Trucks and jeeps move through muddy paths. The last image shows a jeep equipped with a tall bumper-mounted wire cutter.
U.S. Army trucks moving along a paved mountain road in Volturno River valley region of Italy during World War 2. Sign at the road reads: "Road under direct observation and Artillery Fire. Keep 100 yds interval." U.S. troops gathered at roadside are passed by a jeep and a light truck with a protected anti-aircraft gun mounted in its back. Army signal corps soldiers installing telephone wires on an existing Italian pole. A peaceful valley pasture is disturbed by German artillery shells bursting in it. American army gunners firing a 105mm howitzers at German positions. A cluster of the shells bursting on a distant hillside. U.S. 155mm long tom guns being loaded and fired from camouflaged position in trees, and from under a camouflage netting. The shells exploding and raising white smoke along the base of hill overlooking the valley. Various views of the 155s firing. A wounded soldier being transported on a stretcher, down some mountainous terrain. U.S. infantry marching single file past a dead German soldier. Views of mountain roads blown away by retreating German forces. Combat engineers are challenged to build a bridge against a sheer cliff on the mountain. They employ jackhammers and manual tools and improvise support structures of heavy timbers. An engineer using a sledge hammer to drive a spike into the timbers. A team of men carry a heavy timber. Engineers creating a bridging structure, on the spot, to allow passage from one section of road to another. Finally, a jeep drives across the new bridge.
United States troops in Volturno River Valley, Italy. Trucks and other vehicles cross roads. The roads smashed. Vehicles and troops cross the road. Sherman Tanks pass on the roads. Wrecked buildings and rubble in view. Troops search the wreckage and debris. Rubble in streets cleared. Troops advance on the roads. Italian refugees travel roads. Aerial view of the valley. Troops fire German aircraft. Vehicles cross pontoon bridges. (World War II period).
Location of Saipan on an animated map. Japanese planes attack B-29 base in Saipan, Pacific Theater. Many United States B-29 bomber aircraft destroyed. Fire and heavy black smoke rises up. Troops try to extinguish fire by throwing water through buckets and hose. Japanese planes attack second time. Jeeps pass on the airfield. Wrecked and burnt planes on base. (World War II period).
United States troops receive whole blood from home in Pacific Theater. An animated map shows boxes of blood flown from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor, Guam, and Leyte. Vehicles parked outside a Red Cross center. A woman donates blood. A nurse sits near her. Blood is kept in portable refrigerators. 'Human blood' written on the boxes. Plane lands in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The boxes are unloaded. The crew loads the boxes onto another plane. The boxes arrive in planes Guam. The blood boxes arrive at Base Hospital and are kept in refrigerators. Wounded soldier receives blood in Leyte, Philippines. (World War II period).
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