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American forces capture a Japanese airbase on the Mariana Islands.

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).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050443
B-29 , tail number 42-224802 on Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II.

Camera pans across North airfield on Guam, Mariana Islands, in World War 2. Next a large group of Airmen are seen standing around a shiny B-29 bomber parked on the ramp. It has "K333" stenciled on left side of its forward fuselage. Its tail number is 42-224802. (This B-29 is named "Purple Shaft," but that is not stenciled on its left side.) The airmen walk around and examine it. Next, The aircraft commander, Lieutenant Warren Richard Aylsworth is seen speaking with a Captain, as they stand next to the plane. Others join in the conversation. (Note: The plane is scheduled to fly to Tinian this night, the 20th, but will land at Saipan, instead, because runway lights were not yet operational on Tinian. The "Purple Shaft" will be the first B-29 to arrive at Tinian, the following day, December 21, 1944.)

Date: 1944, December 20
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036235
Gen. Henry H. Arnold arrives at headquarters and visits 314th Bombardment Wing at North Field in Guam, Mariana Islands.

U.S. Army General Henry H. Arnold visits 314th Bombardment Wing at North Field in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Staff cars and military police escorts arrive at headquarters. A band plays in the foreground. U.S. Army Air Force Major Generals Curtis E. Lemay and Thomas S. Power greet General Henry H. Arnold. Generals and staff officers at attention as the band plays. The Generals leave the headquarters and walk to service apron where General Arnold speaks to 314th Wing personnel.

Date: 1945, June 14
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072102
Major General Curtis E. LeMay and staff watch movies in Guam, Mariana Islands showing B-29 Superfortresses bombing Japan.

Major General Curtis E. LeMay and staff watch movies in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force ( USAAF ) Major General and Commander of 21st Bomber Command Curtis E. LeMay with staff watches movies. A screen in the background. LeMay and staff seated in chairs as they watch the movies. Major General Lemay smokes a cigarette as he talks a staff personnel. The screen shows USAAF B-29 Superfortresses taking off to bomb Japan. A pilot and a copilot in a cockpit. Bombings over a target. Explosions and smoke over targets. Staff personnel look at a map.

Date: 1945, March
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072103
Curtis E. LeMay and staff watch movies in Guam, Mariana Islands which show B-29 Superfortresses taking off to bomb Japan.

Major General Curtis E. LeMay and staff watch movies in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II U.S. Army Air Force ( USAAF ) Major General and Commander of 21st Bomber Command Curtis E. LeMay with staff watches movies. A screen in the background. LeMay smokes a cigarette as he talks to a staff personnel. The screen shows USAAF B-29 Superfortresses taking off to bomb Japan. A pilot and a copilot in a cockpit. They operate controls. Bombings over a target. Explosions and smoke over targets.

Date: 1945, March
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072104
Curtis E. LeMay and staff watch movies in Guam, Mariana Islands showing B-29 Superfortresses taking off and bombing Japan.

Major General Curtis E. LeMay and staff watches movies in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force ( USAAF ) Major General and Commander of 21st Bomber Command Curtis E. LeMay with staff watches movies. A screen in the background. LeMay smokes a cigarette as he talks to a staff personnel. The screen shows USAAF B-29 Superfortresses taking off to bomb Japan. Palm trees in the foreground. A pilot and a copilot in a cockpit. They operate controls. Bombings over target. Explosions and smoke over the targets. Staff personnel look at a map.

Date: 1945, March
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072105