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U.S. B-29 aircraft base on Guam in World War 2. U.S. Army soldiers in routine activities.
Animated map indicating routes from Northern Marianas Islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam to Japan, and return. Map of the islands and focus on Guam. A village in Guam. Shows natives going down street on a bullock cart. Supply dump showing boxes, tires, and Pilot oxygen containers. Trucks hauling supplies. B-29 on hardstand, with tail code "Z", from the 73rd Bomb Wing, 500th Bomb Group, stationed at Saipan. Several B-29s along the flightline, displaying tail code "O", from the 314th Bomb Wing, 29th Bomb Group, home-based on Guam . Scenes of tent area. Soldiers standing at table, eating. Two homemade washing machines. Two soldiers scrubbing and cleaning fatigues clothing with brushes. Three GIs taking showers.
Chamorro workmen construct a road in Guam.
Exterior of Guam Council building in Guam. Members arrive and enter the building. Sign reads, 'Guam Council. Exteriors of Naval Government of Guam, Dept of Industries Office. Interior of Commissary Store. Ships store ashore. 'Department of Industries' sign. Workers build road. Tarring of road is done. Chamorro workmen and caterpillars indulge in construction of the road.
Radioman George Ray Tweed speaks about suffering inflicted by Japanese on Chamorros natives in Guam.
Chamorros in Guam during the Battle of Guam. U.S. soldiers pass along streets of Guam. M-tanks are transported, ships in the background. Interior of office: George Ray Tweed, Chief radiomen on Guam who, with the help of locals hid out for the duration of the Japanese occupation, talks about violence that Japanese inflicted on Chamorro natives. He shows hideouts, from where soldiers fought. He talks to an officer. Chamorro natives pray for dead. Dead bodies with cut heads. Dead soldiers lying on ground showing brutality. Chamorro natives get food, medical care and infant care. (World War II period).
U.S. troops and Chamorro natives work together to rebuild Guam after World War II.
Chamorros in Guam during the Battle of Guam. A man plays whistle. Chamorro natives gather. Plans for Guam people shown. American soldiers load shells into artillery. Bulldozer levels land to construct airfield. An aircraft lands. During the war: naval battle, guns fired, ships underway at sea. A letter from Secretary of Navy James Forrestal depicts the U.S. progress in Guam.
Newsreel titled Complete Victory on Guam depicting the United States Marine Corps defeating the Japanese in Guam in WWII.
Newsreel titled 'Complete Victory on Guam'. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) firing at Japanese soldiers at Point Chonito. Trees destroyed by firing of the soldiers. General Holland Smith of the USMC watches his men advance and capture their position. Dead Japanese soldiers at their hideouts. Destroyed posts and watch towers of the Japanese forces. The USMC soldiers salute the U.S. Flag raised after their victory. (World War II period).
Vietnamese refugees arrive in Guam aboard the SS Transcolorado, during Operation New Life.
The freighter SS Transcolorado (chartered by the U.S. Military Sealift Command, as a civilian cargo ship, designated T-AK-2005) arrives in Guam carrying at-risk South Vietnamese refugees who will be temporarily housed there under Operation New Life. (Later, most will be transferred to the United States under Operation New Arrivals.) Views of the refugees, including many children, on the deck of the ship. U.S. Marines carry a sick, or injured person from the ship on a litter. Families descend gangplank to the pier, where they are guided to hastily set up reception center. Grocery carts are employed to assist refugees carrying belongings. Local people line up to distribute items, including flip flops, to the refugees, as they pass along the pier. A merchant marine sailor assists one of the families. A woman dressed in white intercepts a Vietnamese woman carrying a small child, and directs her to a tent set up as a "Baby Center." (Many tents are seen in the background.) Inside the Baby Center, reception workers prepare food and items needed for baby care. Several Vietnamese refugee women sit on a bench in the tent, with their babies.