War causalities are loaded aboard LCVPs (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel), on beach at Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Beachhead scenes show several LVTs (tracked landing vehicles) in operation. Heavy smoke rises in background and Mt Suribachi partially seen obscured in smoke. U.S. medics carry wounded on stretchers along the beach. Face wound of a Marine on a stretcher. Small boats come alongside an APA (Amphibious Attack Transport Ship). Small boats loaded with Marines on way to the beach.
The Second Sino-Japanese War begins in China. Aerial shots of the Great Wall of China, near Beijing. Scenes of war between Japanese and Chinese troops in Beijing (Peiping), China. Gunners fire artillery on the field. Explosion and smoke from artillery shell explosion. Chinese civilians evacuate and leave Beijing. Japanese troops marching and hold Japanese flag. Japanese soldiers ride donkeys and horses. Chinese troops and cavalry on the streets and in fields. Chinese General reviews new troops. The General gives green signal to squadron of fighter planes at an airfield. A Chinese general (likely Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek) watch Chinese fighter planes take off. The fighter planes take off from the airfield.
Shows U.S. Army transport ship Leviathan underway in harbor at Brest in France during World War I. U.S. Army troops debark the Leviathan ocean liner at the Port of Brest. Unloading of food and supplies at the port. Armed U.S. troops march. 306th Division troops of the 1st Army queue to board railroad train cars, bound for the war front. Sign on side of cars shows capacity of 36-40 men per train car, plus 8 horses. A steam locomotive surrounded in steam and smoke as it gets underway, leaving the railway train station with a long train filled with soldiers and horses.
Shows U.S. Army troops at the war front in France during World War I. U.S. 39th and 58th infantry Regiments advance under machine gun and artillery fire at Montfaucon and Nantillois in Meuse, France on September 28,1918.
Guarded by American dough boys (U.S. Army soldiers) with rifles and fixed bayonets, German war prisoners carry wounded U.S. troops on stretchers to dressing station at Missy-Aux-Bois in France on July 16th,1918 during World War I. Shows American forces in a hillside trench, lined up at the trench embankment and firing rifles at enemy positions. The trench position appears to be cut into the side of a forest hill with trees visible.
U.S. Army 128th Infantry, 32nd Division troops, with several French soldiers, at Austerlitz woods in Alsace Germany on June 5th,1918. An American rifleman looks for German soldiers, through binoculars. He fires one shot from his rifle. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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