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Vice Admiral Halsey looks at a map aboard a U.S. warship and infantry men advance across jungle swamps on the Solomon Islands.

A naval battle rages off the Solomon Islands during World War II. The Japanese fleet underway in the Pacific Ocean. A U.S. warship fires at Japanese ships. Animated map shows the main objective of the Japanese that is to capture Guadalcanal. A U.S. bomber lands and taxis. A signal officer gives a signal. A pilot in a cockpit. U.S. Navy Admiral Chester William Nimitz seated in a chair discusses the strategy of attack with an officer. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William Halsey, Jr. looks at a map aboard a U.S. warship. U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean. Animated map shows the positions of ships underway in different directions. A U.S. ship underway. Troops on its deck. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur gets off a car in New Guinea. U.S. infantry troops in trucks and jeeps advance along a dirt road. Troops in a jeep wearing gas masks. Troops seated in a truck hold guns. U.S. soldiers stand around an aircraft. A U.S. bomber aircraft in flight. The bomber aircraft taxis and takes off. The troops get off from the aircraft. Infantry men advance through a jungle. Men lay logs to make a bridge. A convoy moves over a bridge carrying supplies. Soldiers load shells in an artillery and fire. The troops advance through a jungle. They fire artillery. Smoke rises due to the firing. Artillery pounds Japanese positions. The infantry advances across jungle swamps.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069138
Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson and his U.S. 2nd Marine Raider Battalion at a camp in Guadalcanal during World War II.

Commander of U.S. 2nd Marine Raider Battalion Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson and his battalion on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. A Marine makes a dirt map. Natives stand. Colonel Carlson waves at the leaving jeep. Jeeps arrive at camp. A truck loaded with Marines pulls away. USMC (United States Marine Corps) F4F fighter nosed over. U.S. Marines at shore of island beach offloading supplies received by ship.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074833
U.S. Marines land in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands and prepare to fight against the Japanese during World War II.

A film titled 'This is Guadalcanal' about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. A map of Guadalcanal. An officer speaks about the role of U.S. Marines during the battle. He also speaks about the role of civilians that helped the Marines in winning the battle in Guadalcanal. The Marines embark onto a ship and it pulls away from a harbor in San Francisco. View of buildings of skyline of city of San Francisco as seen from moving ship. The Golden Gate Bridge in the background. A U.S. invasion fleet underway in the Pacific Ocean. Officers confer aboard a ship. A signal man at a blinker light. He exchanges a signal with another ship. Naval guns bombard the coast of Guadalcanal and smoke rises from the coast. The Marines come down a landing net and board landing crafts. The landing crafts head towards a beach. Waves break at a shore. The Marines land at a beach. Faces of Marines as the disembark from landing craft. Supplies being unloaded from the landing crafts. Supply crates and gasoline barrels stacked up on the beach. Barbed wire fences on the beach. The Marine in gun emplacements and fox holes.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066962
U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Evan Carlson with his 2nd Marine Raiders Battalion in Guadalcanal during World War II.

U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Evan Carlson with his 2nd Marine Raiders Battalion nicknamed 'Carlson's Raiders' in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Carlson's Raiders hold captured Japanese flag, rifles, ammunition and machine guns. Close-up view of tattoos on arm of a U.S. Marine showing a bulldog wearing a combat helmet and below that a skull and crossbones symbol. Words above the bulldog say "Iceland" and "US Marines." Below the bulldog is written "First to Fight" and "Raiders." Colonel Carlson poses with Carlson's Raiders.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074727
U.S. Navy Seabees lay fuel pipes and construct a fuel tank on Guadalcanal during World War II.

U.S. Navy Seabees on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War 2. Opening scene shows U.S.Seabees raising a formed steel sheet into position for riveting as part of a fuel tank. Next, native workers are seen digging a trench with picks and shovels. A sailor driving a truck looks out his side window as he moves along in the jungle. Several Seabees are riding in the back of the open truck. Closeup of a Seabee Chief Petty Officer in a combat helmet looking over the progress of the ditch diggers. Glimpse of a pier at water's edge. Lines of fuel pipe being laid out on the ground. Sections of pipe being welded by a Seabee using an acetylene torch. Several Seabees work together to lift a section of pipe into place. Two USAAF B-17 bombers fly overhead above palm trees. A truck drives past the camera, pulling a series of bomb laden trailers, with men riding atop some of the bombs. Jeeps drive along a path in a shady camp site under palm trees.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074730
Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson and his U.S. 2nd Marine Raider Battalion in Guadalcanal during World War II.

Commander of U.S. 2nd Marine Raider Battalion Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson and his battalion on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Colonel Evans Carlson in the camp. Marines hold captured Japanese guns and flags. A Marine with tattoo on his arm.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074832