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U.S. 5th Marine Regiment training in forest area of Russell Islands, Solomon Islands

United States Marines of the 5th Marine Regiment undergo training in Russell Islands, Solomon Islands, Pacific Theater, during World War II. Group of Marines advance with M4 Sherman tanks. The infantry moves in thick forest area. Marines in alert positions with rifles in hand. Smoke rises from an explosion in the background. Marines double timing with rifles in hand.

Date: 1944, July 25
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064091
U.S. troops advance along a beach at Camouflage Island on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

A training film on operations of U.S. forces on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II. Animation shows landing of combat team 24 on beaches Green I and Green II of Camouflage Island. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment. Landing craft and boats underway at sea. Troops wade ashore. Wrecked equipment and rubbled houses in the area. Soldiers fire rifles and other guns. They advance on a beach. A tank parked on the beach. Soldiers stand nearby and fire. The tank advances. Soldiers advance under heavy firing. Animation depicts the area occupied by the troops. Aircraft in flight overhead. Formation of a mushroom cloud due to heavy smoke.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077295
U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Squadrons on Green Island Atoll in South Pacific during World War II.

Start of film shows several U.S. Navy PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats clustered around a larger ship close to Green Atoll in the South Pacific, during World War 2. Views from a boat moving past the large camouflaged boat. The camera boat continues moving along the shore, where small tents are pitched. dense jungle covers the atoll. A landing craft (Higgins Boat) moves across the path of the camera boat. Other boats of various sizes are seen, including one with a torpedo on deck and one anchored that has a large tarpaulin tent across it, and clothes drying on a line. A PT boat passes, with crew on deck and some clothes drying on an improvised line. Distant views of several PT boats along the coast. A camouflaged PT boat passes close to the shore. Crew members from PT boat 237 are seen descending a landing net to recover the body of a PT boat captain killed in action with the Japanese. (Reportedly, a motor mechanic, who later joined the crew of Pt 237, identified some of those seen as: blond man kneeling and holding cargo net Is Olson. Slender shirtless man at far right is Bobby Leonard. Man hanging on cargo net is the skipper of 237, Lieutenant Airigo. Man at bottom right of cargo net is Al Navarre.) Camera boat moves toward the shore where a large group of sailors are waiting. Next, sailors are seen loading heavy boxes from a truck, and placing them aboard a boat backed up to the shore. They also unload something from the boat and place it in the truck. Trucks on the sandy shore are servicing PT boat 160, which has a tarp canopy overhead to protect from the sun. Change of view shows jeeps moving near a camp on shore displaying a sign reading: "Camp Tenron." Nearby some sailors stand on a raised wooden structure displaying a large painted sign showing a PT boat racing through the water and reading: "Motor Torpedo Squadrons, Green Islands." One sailor sends a signal by means of a shuttered signal lamp. Sailor ride on a truck carrying 55 gallon drums, as it enters Camp Tenron. A sailor on the raised structure looks through a telescope. Sailors on a PT boat using a line to recover something from the water beside their boat. The boat contains tarps and clothes drying on lines. A PT boat heading out on patrol. Sailor on the wooden platform uses semaphore flags to signal. On shore sailors haul boxes from a pile. Sailors seen on a chow line shaded by trees and a tent. Next, they are seen seated at tables set up under a large dining tent. Closeup of a few eating at a table.

Date: 1944, March 12
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040964
U.S. soldiers searching for Japanese prisoners and firing at their positions along a shore in the Solomon Islands.

United States troops in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Tactical maneuver of bypassing some Japanese held islands and advancing to more strategic positions is explained. U.S. soldiers aboard a tank advancing along a shore. Some of the soldiers walking along the shore. They fire at Japanese positions. Holding rifles they search for Japanese prisoners. Buildings on a field. The soldiers standing in front of the buildings. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers lying on the field.

Date: 1944
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076656
P-40, P-38 and P-39 airplanes of the U.S. Air Force at its base in Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II.

Air base of the U.S. Air Force at Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, South Pacific during World War II. Fighter airplanes taking off from the runway. P-40 of the U.S. Air Force with jaws painted on its nose takes off. Following it, the P-38 and P-39 airplanes also take off from a runway among palms of the island.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036200
U.S. Marines bathe, eat and read a bulletin board in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

A film about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Wounded U.S. Marines being loaded aboard an aircraft to be taken to an island in the Pacific for medical aid. The Marines with minor injuries recover at a field hospital in Guadalcanal. A Marine opens a refrigerator. The Marines bathe and wash in a river. A cook bakes biscuits. The Marines eat food. They look at a bulletin board.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066967