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General MacArthur takes off from Brisbane, Australia for Milne Bay, New Guinea during World War II.

Allied Supreme Commander for South West Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur en route to Milne Bay, New Guinea during World War 2. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid and Rear Admiral Van Hook at Archerfield in Brisbane, Australia. They await the arrival of General MacArthur. A car arrives at the airfield and General MacArthur gets out of the car. The General being greeted by the Admirals. General MacArthur and the Admirals aboard MacArthur's personal B-17 Flying Fortress "Bataan" as they confer. Three officers aboard USS Phoenix underway in the Pacific Ocean. A convoy of Allied ship underway in far background with a sailor at a blinker in the foreground.

Date: 1944, February 27
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059383
U.S. troops advance and USAAF B-24 Liberators drop bombs on Japanese positions in Indonesia during the New Guinea campaign.

The New Guinea campaign during World War II. A heavy cruiser underway at sea. Anti aircraft guns fired at the cruiser from a U.S. Navy battleship. U.S. Marines holding guns. The Marines fire at the cruiser. U.S. soldiers on a ship. U.S. Navy LCPs (Landing Craft, Personnel) move towards a beach. Marines aboard an LCP. The Marines holding guns get down from the LCP and move onto the beach. Marines from a U.S. Navy LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry) on the beach. An army truck driving down the ramp of a U.S. Navy LST (Landing Ship, Tank) onto the beach.The LST half immersed in water. An army jeep driven on a muddy road, soldiers on either side. A few soldiers wading through a stream with their hands raised to hold their guns. A soldier wades through the stream holding two ammunition boxes on his shoulders. Guns fired from a tank. Soldiers with rifles walk through bushes. An M4 Sherman tank moving in a wooded region. Combat infantrymen follow the tank. Two tanks fire into the wooded region. A group of soldiers wade through tropical grass. Three soldiers load projectiles into a 75mm mortar. Soldiers look at a Japanese field gun. Dead Japanese soldiers lying beside the gun. American soldiers observe a wrecked Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service fighter aircraft A6M Zero. LCPs move towards a beach. Soldiers man a 30 caliber machine gun aboard a LCP. The LCPs approach the beach and the soldiers advance across the beach into the wooded area. Several more LCPs arrive. A United States Army Air Force B-24 Liberator takes off from an airfield. Several bomber aircraft in flight. Bombs dropped from the bomb bay of an aircraft on Japanese positions. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Explosions on areas along a coast line. Thick smoke rises from the bombed areas.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069933
United States capture various islands in the Pacific Theater after defeating the Japanese during World War II.

Allied campaign against the Axis in 1944 during World War II. Exteriors of a building in Tehran, Iran where the Tehran Conference took place in 1943. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated outside the building after the conference. A map depicts United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater. U.S. troops land at the Marshal Islands. Troops fire and advance in Palau islands. Soldiers wade through water. Flakes burst and explosions occur at sea near Saipan. U.S. troops advance inland in Guam. A blind soldier walks.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065882
General Twining congratulates pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron, on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during WWII

Major General Nathan F. Twining, Commanding General, 13th Air Force. arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Army Air Forces, at Henderson Field, on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, during World War 2. (The 339th had successfully accomplished a highest priority mission, shooting down Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's airplane on April 18, 1943.) Major General Twining, wearing a pith helmet, steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of 339th Squadron Pilots. He examines the nose wheel of a P-38, as a group of pilots stand around him. General Twining converses for a while with Major John W. Mitchell, Commander, 339th Fighter Squadron, who led the mission to down Admiral Yamamoto's airplane. Later, members of the 339th Squadron are photographed in conversations with one another.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036187
General Twining congratulates Pilots of U.S. Air Force who shot Japanese planes, in Guadalcanal Solomon Islands during WWII.

General Twining arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Air Force, in Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. General Nathan Twining steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of Air Force Pilots. He congratulates Captain John Mitchell and then speaks to Pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron. General Twining and other Pilots stand in front of a P-38 fighter airplane and talk. Pilots who shot three Zero Fighters and three bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) over Ki hill Airfield near Munda Point. The three Pilots, Captain Thomas Lamphier, Jr.,, Lieutenant Busby Frank Holmes and Lieutenant Alex E Barber pose for a photograph. (These three would later participate in U.S. Operation Vengeance, on April 16, 1943, in which they engage a group of Japanese aircraft, including one carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. He would perish when they down the Mitsubishi G4M bomber carrying him.) Pilots leaving in a jeep. A Pilot stands on the wing of P-38 fighter, besides its canopy.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036188
25th Liaison squadron pilots take off in Stinson L-5 Sentinel at Dansalan airfield in the Philippines during World War II.

U.S. Army liaison mission over Malabang in the Philippines Islands, during World War 2. A jeep is being driven up to the 25th Liaison Squadron Stinson L-5 Sentinel, at Dansalan Airstrip. The aircraft is serial number 42-99146 "Gayle Ann" of the "Guinea Short Lines." The crew of the aircraft lay out an aerial photograph on the tail for briefing. Captain Kellet, with a pen in his hand, huddles over the horizontal stabilizer discussing the mission and photograph, with pilot Tech Sgt. Loyd Herbert Summers Jr. as Staff Sergeant Felter stands next to them. The officers board the aircraft. (As they do so, a man is seen in the background, riding a horse. He stops short of the airplane and dismounts Sgt. Peterson checks the gasoline and secures the cap. Captain Kellet aboard the aircraft, makes a radio call to the local control. The L-5 takes off from the airstrip. The aircraft in flight over Dansalan Airstrip. Aerial views of inhabited areas in the region. Aerial views of Camp Keithley Headquarters, 10th Military District. 42-99146 in flight being filmed by airplane flying in formation.

Date: 1945, April 5
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054905