Pictures taken by military and news cameramen during World War II. Operation Claymore, March 1941: British Commandos raid Lofoten Islands in assault boats. They destroy a fish oil refinery off the coast of Norway. Soldiers and civilians on the docks. Burning refineries and buildings. Clouds of black smoke. 1941: British and Canadian troops on Spitsbergen Island. They destroy Soviet coal mines to prevent the Germans from occupying them. Black smoke clouds due to the explosions. Operation Archery on Vaagso Island, 1941: British Commandos raid the Island. Soldiers walk in the snow. Nazi prisoners surrender and marched by British soldiers. Battle ensues on the Island. Soldiers walk past a fence. Burning buildings in the background.
Shamrock V, a sailing yacht preparing for the America's Cup race is in water with another in Newport. The yacht is in full sail. Men on yacht are chatting.
Views from ground level. U.S. Navy C-class airship passes over Statue of Liberty and circles Bedloe's Island. It is joined by a B-class airship and they both fly over Bedloe's Island. The airships in flight over Manhattan Island in New York City. Considerable smoke from chimneys of buildings. The Brooklyn Bridge seen faintly in background. View from a nearby high building of Air ship circling close to the tower of the Woolworth Building.
Tourist attractions on Okinawa Island. Map of Okinawa showing Kadena and Nago City on it. View of Northern part of Okinawa. Jungles and beaches on the Island. Various monuments in Okinawa. Japanese fishermen on boats. American couple visits castle ruins. An American woman plays with her children on the beach. Japanese crowd watch bullfight between two bulls, where the bulls fight each other and the men in the ring serve only as handlers, not toreadores or matadors. Todoroki falls in Okinawa. Soldier in camera shop holding a 35mm still camera and pointing it toward the filming camera. Neon signs of Okinawa nightclubs such as 'Club Night Queen’, ‘New Star' and 'Club 7'. A white man talking with a local woman in front of a club. Narrator notes "the price is high if you don't use reasonable care" (alluding to caution about sexually transmitted diseases).
U.S. Army personnel and equipment loaded aboard a ship in New Orleans, United States to carry out chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. Test animals and equipment loaded aboard the ship. Men unload a barge loaded with equipment at San Jose Island beach. Trucks move inland. A camp area is leveled. Bulldozers operate at the camp area. A gas handling area is established. An aerial view of the camp.
Bombardment of Saipan in the Mariana Islands during World War II. Transports in a transport area. USS Minneapolis (CA-36), a New Orleans class heavy cruiser, under a bomb attack. Ships fire. Flak bursts in the air. A Fletcher class destroyer passes. Smoke columns rise from the ship and the island under bombardment.
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