An injured U.S. soldier on a stretcher is loaded into a medical vehicle. A Douglas R4D-8 transport aircraft taxies on a runway in Iwo Jima, while U.S. Marines walk by and watch. Five Marines, all in arm slings, walk past the R4D-8. A few men on stretchers are brought into a building, and another man, smoking a cigarette, is moved on a stretcher into the back of a small vehicle. Another man with an injured hand is moved into a small vehicle on a stretcher. A World War 2 medical transport truck drives off, and the camera gives a closeup of the red cross symbol on the truck.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War 2. A beach on the Philippine island of Mindanao. U.S. aircraft in flight over the coastline. Signal Officer Lieutenant Leon Tinnell works at the Signal Headquarters. He talks on the radio receiver. He radios a message to U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reporting on movement of Japanese troops. U.S. aircraft take off for a mission against the Japanese troops. They drop bombs on Japanese ships. Smoke from fire due to the explosions. A U.S. submarine near a battleship at sea. U.S. Navy sailors aboard the ship and the submarine. Wounded and sick officers and soldiers including Lt. Tinnell are transferred from the submarine onto the ship. Soldiers carry a comrade on a stretcher. Landing crafts approach an island in the Philippines. General MacArthur and Allied troops land at Leyte Island on October 20, 1944. They leave the crafts off shore and wade through the water towards the beach. Signal Corps officers record the event as General MacArthur and the others make their way inland.
A-4E aircraft parked on flight deck of the USS Constellation (CVA-64). Plane captains walk along flight deck. A- 4Es parked in far background, framed by part of A-3B.Plane captain along port side of cockpit of A-4E. NK Tail code of Carrier Wing 14, seen on all aircraft. Green shirts stand looking up toward plane captain working on windshield of A-4E.Radar antennas rotating on the Island. A-4E parked on deck, tow-bar attached to nose wheel, water framed in background. Group of men, in left background, sunning themselves. A-4E parked on deck, island structure in left BG. Man standing alongside cockpit talking to plane captain seated in cockpit of A-4E. plane captain scrubbing down top inner section of starb'd wing. VA 55 Warhorses logo and USS Constellation painted on fuselage of plane. Man cleaning vertical stabilizer.View of ship's bridge. Men cleaning down vertical and horizontal stabilizers of A-4E. Man in far background cleaning port side of cockpit area as fourth man at right cleans starboard wing. Looking aft, from forward part of flight deck, island in left, shows empty flight deck and a lone yellow shirt seated on two wheel chocks.
Documentary titled 'To the Shores of Iwo Jima' about the American attack on Iwo Jima. Map shows location of Iwo Jima Island near Japan, Japanese defense lines and the American front lines. U.S. Navy forces attack on the island. Planes from carriers take off to drop bombs at Japanese targets on the island. Scenes of heavy shelling on enemy's beach installations. U.S. Navy forces head towards the beach in the initial assault. Troops debark from landing craft onto the beach. Soldiers pinned down due to heavy enemy fire. Navy corpsmen carry wounded soldiers on litters.
USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in Gulf of Tonkin Vietnam, during Vietnam War. U.S. Navy officers and airmen walking on the deck area near the ship's island. Number 65 in bold written on the lower portion of ship's island. Several airmen go and come out from the island. Lieutenant Commander Robert R Brennock walking towards the A-4FSkyhawk for his 200th mission. Pilot inspects the engines, climbs up. LCDR Paul Shields written on the plane beside cockpit. Brennock lowers the canopy and takes off. The A-4FSkyhawk aircraft lands and the pilot step down. As the pilot walks, the commanding officer Robert J Thomas congratulates him. A UH-2C helicopter parked on the deck and several men stand near to it.
Gulf of Tonkin during Vietnam War. Several U.S. Navy pilots walk on the deck area near the ship's island. 200th mission for Lieutenant Junior Grade Thomas P Anderson, who walks away from the ship's island. Number 65 in bold written on the lower portion of ship's island. LTJG Anderson walks towards an A-4F Skyhawk, inspects the entire aircraft, climbs up, lowers the canopy and takes off. Commanding officer Robert J Thomson congratulates the pilot on landing. Both men walk across the deck area.
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