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U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps War Dog and grave registration activities during World War II in the Pacific.
Opening scene shows German shephard puppies and their mother in World War 2. Several dogs and their handlers are seen. A dog being aggressively trained by a heavily padded trainer inciting the dog to attack him. Scene shifts to a sign reading "40th QM War Dogs" (40th Quartermaster War Dog Battalion).It is on a rustic compound fence in a jungle area of the Pacific. Dogs here are not aggressive, but are trained to be alert reliable companions to their respective handlers. Next, several soldiers and their companion dogs are seen walking along a jungle trail. Scene shifts abruptly to a completely different aspect of Quartermaster activity: Graves registration. Army pallbearers carry a fallen soldier on a stretcher, covered with an American flag, into an established military cemetery in the Pacific. Soldiers commence burial procedures. Views of the cemetery from a structure therein, showing numerous white crosses, and an extremely tall flag pole displaying the American flag. Scene shifts, to Quartermaster troops assembled in a chow line, as a bugler blows. Two GIs eating by a large tree.
Amphibious training in Pacific during World War II. Medics treat several Marines injured during the exercises in World War II.
View from ship flying U.S. Navy church pennant above the American flag, during amphibious assault training in the Pacific, during World War 2. Several Marines injured during the exercises are given first aid and transported by Coast Guard crew of landing craft. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) pulls alongside ramp of a Landing Ship Tank (LST). Navy personnel standing on ramp. A litter patient smoking a cigarette, brought aboard a LCVP. Litter patients on the well deck of a LCVP. Marine with face injury receives treatment.
Fletcher Class Destroyer and amphibious vehicles during amphibious training exercises in Pacific during WWII
Amphibious training in Pacific during Second World War. Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVT) in the water. Ships at anchor. LVTs underway towards the beach. A Landing Ship Tank (LST) convoy anchored off shore. A view of the beach area. Explosions on the beach. Amphibious vehicles with United States Marines approach the beach. A United States Navy Fletcher Class destroyer and a Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) off shore. LVTs, in column, heading for the beach. Hills in the background.
U.S. Marine baptized by Chaplain in ocean. Amphibious task force at anchor offshore.
A U.S. Marine and Chaplain stand on the loading ramp of a Landing Ship Tank (LST). Surf breaking over the ramp as the Marine is baptized by the chaplain. Destroyer Escort Silhouetted on the horizon. Variety of Navy vessels comprising an amphibious task force, anchored offshore.
U.S. amphibious assault on Japanese-held island in Pacific during World War II
U.S. amphibious assault on Pacific island in World War 2. Transport ships offshore. A U.S. Fletcher Class destroyer, close to shore, bombarding the shore. White smoke rising from shell burst. Landing craft heading toward shore. Black smoke rising on shoreline, from naval shelling. More black smoke and fires at another shore location. Plume of water from Japanese shell striking near assault boats. The destroyer close to the shore as smoke drifts above mountain in background. Flames at shore. Landing craft tracked (LCT) approaching shore and avoiding area of fire and smoke. American SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser, PC-1278, close to shore. She displays a red flag with white stripe, as secondary control ship for Red Beach. Several LVTs led by one displaying Wave Commander blue and orange flag. Several plumes of water thrown into the air from Japanese shells or bombs. Assault boats reaching narrow beach, where a fire is burning. Other boats and LVTs avoiding the area of smoke and fire. Landing craft clustered at shore and one flying red and white flag, away from the shore. Several structures on the shore. More black smoke rising from shore. Camera pans around showing steep vegetation-covered hills characteristic of the island.
U.S. General Patch, U.S. Admiral Hewitt, and French Admiral Lemonnier lead the Allied fleet invasion of southern France.
Amphibious and airborne Allied forces land in southern France during World War II. (Operation Dragoon in August 1944). Map of France depicts Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day. Naples: An Allied naval force assembles, poised for landing in Southern France, 10 weeks after the Normandy D-Day invasion. Thousands of landing crafts, trucks, tanks, mobile cannons, military vehicles and equipment in the embarkation area. Barrages in flight overhead. Allied officers supervise as the vehicles are loaded into ships. US, French, British, Greek and Polish troops move up to their ships. The ships underway in the Mediterranean. U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, U.S. Army General Alexander Patch, French Admiral Andre Lemonnier and U.S. Navy Admiral Henry Hewitt (Chief of the Atlantic Invasion Fleet) aboard the flagship. Allied soldiers stitch sleeve patches. An animated map depicts the Allied invasion of southern France near Toulon in a combined amphibious and airborne assault. Hundreds of transport aircraft carry paratroop forces. The paratroopers get ready, jump, and descend to the ground. The amphibious forces near the French coast. German shore batteries fire at the approaching naval vessels. Explosions on ships and in water. Allied troops crouched in landing crafts. They hit the beach under shell fire and advance in land.
