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U.S. Marines march at beach area in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

U.S. Marines in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Harbor of Tulagi. A jeep coming across a causeway carrying Marine personnel. A small tractor pulls a trailer with personnel. Two telephone linemen up in palm trees repairing cable. The jeep departs Henderson Field. APAs (Attack Transports) lying at anchor. A lookout post at beach. Marines march along a road.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074733
Japanese prisoners marched under U.S. Military Police guard in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

Japanese prisoners in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Japanese prisoners are marched. Wounded prisoners carried on stretchers. MP (Military Police) stands guard. U.S. Marines leave the beach in landing craft. Prisoners march behind barbed wire.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074837
Members of 2nd Marine Raider Battalion in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson and his 2nd Marine Raider Battalion in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Carlson talks to a Marine and shows a picture. Colonel Carlson poses with 2nd Marine Battalion. The Marines hold Japanese flags and captured guns.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074839
U.S. Marines handle equipment on Guadalcanal beach, Solomon Islands during World War II.

U.S. Marines in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. A truck pulls trailers loaded with 1000 lb. bombs. Marines sit on bombs. The ammunition dump. Equipment handled on beach. Marines unload crates. A crane in operation.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074840
U.S. Marines leave Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands as army takes over during World War II.

U.S. marines departing Guadalcanal as they are relieved by U.S. Army troops of the 23rd Infantry Division. They board landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP), aka Higgins boats, of the USS Neville (AP-16). Two of the marines scrambles aboard one of the boats as its ramp is almost closed. View of marines packed aboard the LCVP as it gets underway. Two transport ships are anchored in the background. The most distant one is the USS Neville (AP-16). Scene shifts to beach crowded with departing marines and Higgins boats. Closeup of a marine holding a cigarette while eating a sandwich, and another with a bandage on his forehead. Numerous views of the beach crowded with marine; palm trees overhead; higgins boats departing to the USS Neville, and two transport ships anchored in the background. Closeups of marines on shore waiting for more Higgins boats to transport them. Scene changes to U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General William Rupertus, Assistant Commander, 1st Marine Division; U.S. Army Major General Alexander Patch, Commander, 23rd Infantry Division (Americal Division) and U.S. Army Brigadier General Edmund Sebree, his Assistant Commander, posing for the camera as they ostensibly discuss a map. They shake hands with each other. General Sebree exchanges salutes with General Rupertus, and they all walk away. Next, the three generals pose for closeups. Film ends showing columns of marines moving along the sides of a road cut through a forest of palm trees.

Date: 1942, December 18
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074707
U.S. Army Military Police guard Japanese prisoners on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

Japanese prisoners of war carry a wounded Japanese POW on a litter into a fenced prisoner compound on Guadalcanal during World War 2. A sign at the compound reads: "Prisoners of War Camp." Japanese prisoners, all dressed in the same prisoner uniforms, march in casual formation under guard by U.S. Military police.. They leave the compound and march down a road accompanied by MPs.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074729