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Beachhead shows general activities, damaged equipment, men digging foxholes and gun positions on Iwo Jima, Japan.

Beachhead scenes in Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II. Beach scenes on Iwo Jima. Beachhead showing general activities, damaged equipment, men digging foxholes, gun positions and handling stored. DUKW (amphibious truck) underway on the shore. Beachhead shows cherry picker in motion. General beach activity, shipping in the background.

Date: 1945, February 19
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071350
U.S. 3rd Marine Division tanks in action on Iwo Jima Island during World War II.

United States Marine Corps of the 3rd Marine Division in Iwo Jima Island during the Iwo Jima operation of World War 2. View from dug-in position, of several U.S. Marine Corps Sherman tanks on the sands of Iwo Jima in World War 2. They set up in position to fire over dunes. Scene shifts to Shermans moving along a ridge. Mount Suribachi is visible in distant background. Shells striking across beachhead. A Marine and mortar position in foreground. Ocean in background. A huge explosion raises smoke and dust. Glimpse of a Sherman tank silhouetted against background.

Date: 1945, February 25
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063853
Infantry Landing Crafts and other vessels fire on a beach at Iwo Jima, Japan.

Bombardment by U.S. 3rd Marine Division on Iwo Jima. Infantry Landing Crafts fire on a beach at Iwo Jima. Several vessels fire on the beach off Iwo Jima. Smoke rises from the beach. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, February 28
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046455
U.S. Personnel and guns on United States destroyers at bay of Iwo Jima, Japan.

D-Day on Iwo Jima, Japan. Beach area of Iwo Jima. U.S. destroyer in bay of Iwo Jima. Personnel on deck of destroyer. Guns on deck. Ships in the background.

Date: 1945, February
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046466
Remains of the USS Gamble (DM-15) being towed out to sea for scuttling, near end of World War II

The USS Gamble, destroyer/mine layer, DD-123, DM-15 being prepared for scuttling off of Guam, in final days of World War 2. Her severely damaged hulk is seen tied up to a pier. An inspection party examines her. View from camera on the Gamble as she is towed out of Apra Harbor, Guam. View of tugboat ahead, pulling her. View from another boat, of the Gamble with a tug at her port side. Six men are seen riding on her superstructure. Camouflage paint and numerals "15" are still visible on her hull. The tug at her side pulls away. Continued views from nearby boat as the Gamble is towed seaward for scuttling. (Note:The USS Gamble was struck by two Japanese bombs off Iwo Jima on 18 February, 1945. After finally being assessed as damaged beyond repair, she was decommissioned, on June 1, 1945, and scuttled on July 16, 1945.)

Date: 1945, July 16
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059109
Events of World War 2, and creation of United Nations Organization following the surrender of Germany and Japan

Summary of World War II events and formation of the United Nations Organization. Soviet troops on Eastern Front of Europe fire artillery on German positions in 1944. Russian troops advance. German soldiers come out of buildings and surrender. Allied Forces land in France on D-Day. Allied troops and tanks fight Germans on streets in towns and villages of France. U.S. Army tanks fire at German positions. Various groups of German prisoners of war march along roads and are herded into prison camps operated by American and British forces. In 1945, the Allied leaders meet at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Allied military strategy in the final months of WWII. Leaders included British PM Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The meeting of U.S. and Soviet Russian troops at the Elbe River. German Nazi Swastika symbol blown up in explosion atop Zeppelinfeld Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Aerial view of Berlin in ruins, as seen from low-flying aircraft flying directly over the Unter den Linden boulevard and the Brandenburg Gate. Wrecked and bombed German buildings seen everywhere. German officials signing surrender instrument at Rheims. U.S. President Harry S Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam Conference. U.S. Marines battling on beaches of Pacific Islands. Iconic shot of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. Aerial view of bombed and ruined city of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese surrender to MacArthur aboard the battleship USS Missouri. General MacArthur speaks aboard Missouri. Victory celebrations all across the world, with some scenes from earlier V-E Day (Victory in Europe) day in May 1945, including crowds celebrating in Paris, France, and some scenes on V-J Day (Victory over Japan day) in August 1945. Crowds on streets celebrate. Happy crowds jam streets. Delegates of Nations, among them Andrei Gromyko and Vyascheslav Molotov meet in San Francisco and create a United Nations organization. Truman arrives at signing of UN charter. Various delegates sign charter. U.S. troops disembark troop carrier ships at U.S. ports and are discharged after completing military service in World War 2. Group of U.S. Army soldiers exits a church (the Chapel at Fort Dix, New Jersey), waving their discharge papers in hand.

Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053066