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 Marianas Islands. U.S. mortar crew fires at the Japanese. Tanks and infantrymen advance ahead. American troops fire mortar guns, artillery guns and machine guns. Troops advance toward a Japanese airbase. The airbase is captured. Many of the Japanese planes are captured. U.S. forces advance north towards another Japanese airbase. Tanks and mortar guns are fired at enemy positions. View of destroyed Japanese tanks and dead Japanese soldiers. U.S. Naval fleet shelling Japanese installations on the island. A Japanese ammunition dump explodes. Massive cloud of the explosion rises in the air. (World War II period).
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. American troops look through binoculars. U.S. troops use flamethrowers to burn out the Japanese hidden behind underbrush. The enemy is blown out of there pillboxes. (World War II period).
Invasion of Okinawa. U.S. Army and Navy headquarters in Guam, Pacific Ocean. Army and Navy officers walk along path in exteriors of building. Officer arrives to his flagship at fleet's starting point. U.S. convoy underway at sea. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Admiral Mitscher and Admiral Richmond K Turner in conference examine map. Map shows Kerama Islands near Okinawa. U.S. convoy underway and naval bombardment. Landing crafts advance toward island in Kerama group. Amphibious landings on islands in the Kerama group by 77th Division and the 305th Regimental Combat Team. Troops advance and fight enemy. Dead Japanese soldiers. U.S. soldiers question Japanese prisoners and natives. (World War II period).
United States Navy bathyscaphe "Trieste", which is a sumbersible deep diving research boat, seen underway in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Guam. It reaches a record breaking depth of about 37,000 feet in the Mariana Trench, which is the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust.
Joint Office of Sino-American Police Headquarters in Tsingtao, China. A Marine shares his experience of overseas duty with his wife in Hawaii. U.S. Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft coming from Guam lands in Tsingtao, China. Aircraft parked on flight line. Chinese soldier looks on. Sign reads 'Home of VMR (Marine Transport Squadron) 153'. Native couple in a horse drawn carriage. Sign reads 'Pacific Road'. Jeep comes to a halt at roadside. U.S. Marine Corps MP (Military Police) gets off the jeep and enters Joint Office of Sino-American Police Headquarters. Chinese Army MP, Marine interpreter and U.S. Marine talk.
Loose formation of U.S. Navy PB4Y-1 aircraft on a mission in the Marianas Islands during World War II. Crewmen aboard a PB4Y-1 in flight. Aircraft in flight over clouds. Pilot in the cockpit. Crewman placing a label on a container with "APS-1" stenciled on its side. Waist gunner drinking coffee. A crew member resting. Gunners pose at positions (not firing guns). Gunner eating a sandwich. Aerial view of Japanese airfield on Guam. It appears that smoke is rising from exploding bomb on ground.