Survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) disembark at Apra Harbor in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. USS Tranquillity (AH-14) enters the harbor to dock. It comes alongside the dock. The stern of the ship displays its name. The Union Jack flies from a jackstaff. Three nurses stand at the rail of the main deck aboard the ship. A gangway as landing stages are placed aboard USS Tranquillity. Survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) disembark from the ship. Hospital corpsmen carry stretcher cases along the dock. Ambulances backed up to the gangway ladder on the dock as the hospital corpsmen place stretcher cases in the ambulances.
U.S. Naval Supply Depot in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Mud and water in the middle of a road as a vehicle moves through it. A sign reads 'Naval Supply Depot'. Refrigerated storage bus pulls through a gate. A U.S. Marine stands guard.
U.S. Naval Supply Depot in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Quonset huts at the supply depot. U.S. sailors get off a bus and enter Procurement and Issue building. Interiors of the bus show the sailors seated.
Fuel drum salvage operation by U.S. Navy CBs (Construction Battalions) after the capture of Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Large piles of 50 gallon drums. CBs cut the tops of the drums and weld the drums together to form pipelines. A pipeline made of drums is laid into a deep ditch and welding of large sections is completed.
U.S. Navy LST-789 at a beach in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Two men aboard LST-789 (Landing Ship Tank) as they take mooring lined off pair of bitts. A soldier takes a lens and starts looking through light. The soldier cleans the lens. Two cameramen as one cleans a part of the lens and other types the data sheet. Two LSTs with their bows at the beach and cargo doors open. A 6X6 truck drives by in the foreground. The bow section of LST-789 and men rest on the ground in the foreground. Men come down the ramp into the LST carrying their cargo bags. Two men take mooring line off bitts aboard the LST and start to heave in line. The LST-789 backs away from the beach flanked by two LSTs in the background.
A radarscope in Guam, Mariana Islands during world War II. A radarscope as it starts sweeping.
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