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Guam, Mariana Islands. 1945 stock footage and images

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U.S. B-29 bombers operating from Northern Marianas Islands (WW2)

Boeing B-29 Superfortress taking off from Isley Field, Saipan, during World War Two. View of Pilot at controls. View from nose of aircraft as it flies very low over ships in the water. Crew members in flight gear plus life vests (also known as Mae West jackets) are sweating from tropical heat at low altitude. B-29s moving as they taxi to line up for takeoff. A Curtiss C-46 Commando flies overhead. Seen are B-29s of Saipan-based 73rd Bomb Wing's 497th Bomb Group (Tail Code "A"), 499th Bomb Group (Tail Code "V") and 500th Bomb Group (Tail Code "Z"). Also seen are aircraft of the 314th Wing, stationed on Guam, including those of 39th Bomb Group (Tail Code "P") as well as B-29s of the Tinian-based 313th Wing's 9th Bomb Group (Tail Code "X") and 6th Bomb Group (Tail Code "R"). Views of the B-29s taking off. Name on one aircraft, "The Rocket," can be seen. B-29 taking off directly over camera. Ground operations and departures being controlled by a controller/dispatcher on radio telephone. Formation of B-29s overhead. Interior of a B-29 in flight, showing gunner relaxing at his position. View of crew inside B-29 bomber.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034501
Officer paints nose art on B-29 bomber Deaner Boy of U.S. Army Air Force at their base on Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II

United States Army Air Force crew at their base in the Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. A Army Air Force officer stands on a hoist near the cockpit of a B-29 bomber paints a picture on it. Picture of a baby wearing boxing gloves. Officer paints the baby's diaper with white paint. Soldier looks at nose art painting on the B-29 nose with written wording "Deaner Boy" on it. Another soldier walks up and looks at the nose art painting. (Note: Painter might be Lieutenant Dean C. Forburger, based on examination of image reflected back from aircraft body. Forburger was a B-29 pilot stationed at Tinian at the time, and images exist of him standing beneath this nose art. Forburger was not a member of the crew on Deaner Boy when it perished in a mid-air collision accident in February 1945. The Deaner Boy nose art was painted at least twice on this aircraft, as there are also other images of it in existence with a side-facing baby and cursive lettering for "Deaner Boy").

Date: 1944, December 23
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036233
American joint assault forces reclaim Guam from the Japanese.

On the joint force assault by the American Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force against the Japanese on the island of Saipan, Guam and Tinian in the Mariana islands. A map of the Mariana Island in the Pacific, occupied by the Japanese forces. Map of the Guadalcanal. U.S. troops advance in jungles, reach ashore in inflated boats and land on beachheads. Grim faced soldiers marching in the Marshall Islands. Map shows advancement of U.S. forces in Japanese occupied areas. Map shows location of the Marianas Island. U.S. troops aboard landing crafts reach ashore. Face of commander as he yells to comrades. Scenes of battle between the American and the Japanese forces. Landing ship tanks (LST) advance on beach head. Sounds of heavy artillery shelling. U.S. troops advance on beach under heavy enemy fire. Joint Assault Force attacks the island of Guam. Guam is finally reclaimed by the U.S. forces. The U.S. flag is planted on Guam. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050442
U.S. B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 314th Bomb Wing, 29th Bomb Group, taxiing at North Field Guam, during World War II.

B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 314th Bombardment Wing, 29th Bombardment Group, all displaying Square O tail codes, taxi for takeoff at their base, North Field, Guam, Marianas Islands, during World War 2.

Date: 1945, July 9
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023213
Airmen from 20th Bomber Command Headquarters, Guam, make a fun movie about pilot in cockpit of P-51 aircraft

About a month after the end of World War 2, Airmen at the Headquarters, U.S. 20th Bomber Command, Guam, Marianas Islands, try their hand at movie making for fun. Numerous takes of airman's hand on control stick in cockpit of a P-51. The first is with a glove on. Others are barehanded. He manipulates the control stick and presses weapons firing buttons. In a different scene, a "pilot" sits in cockpit of a dented P-51 and with help of contrived background appears to be flying. He acts somewhat bewildered.

Date: 1945, September 24
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067356
Several B-29s fly in a formation over Rota Island in Guam, Mariana Islands.

United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) 29th Bombardment Group in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. An aerial view of USAAF B-29 Superfortress aircraft in flight over Rotal Island. Several B-29s fly in a formation. A B-29 parked on an airfield. The crew of the B-29 prepares for a flight.

Date: 1945, May 9
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062251