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8th Fighter Group load equipment and trucks on a cargo ship on Morotai Island in Indonesia.

Activities of U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group on Morotai Island in Indonesia during World War II. A cargo ship at a dock. The ship is loaded. Soldiers load a truck on the dock. The soldiers seated on the dock watch as a truck is lowered. The soldiers put equipment on a net. The net full of equipment being hoisted up and into a hold. A grab line picks up barrels and lowers them into the hold.

Date: 1944, November 6
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068920
8th Fighter Group loads boxes in trucks and takes down canvas tent at Squadron Area on Morotai Island, Indonesia.

Activities of U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group at Squadron Area on Morotai Island, Indonesia during World War II. Soldiers load a truck. A soldier paints code numbers on a box. They load wood on the truck. A pile of scrap burning. Two officers look at papers. The Squadron Area after tents have been taken down. An underground dugout. The soldiers load trucks. They take down canvas tents. Palm trees in the background. The soldiers roll the canvas tents for shipping. A spring of water and a soldier looks at it.

Date: 1944, November 6
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068921
8th Fighter Group load trucks with equipment, barrack bags and supplies on Morotai Island, Indonesia, in World War II

Activities of U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group at Squadron Area on Morotai Island, Indonesia during World War 2. An operations building after being torn down. Trucks are loaded with equipment. 5 gallon water casks ready for shipment. Soldiers load the trucks. They cover the trucks The soldiers load barracks bags on a truck. The truck drives out. A supply officer inspects a water trailer. Several trucks drive out. Fighter pilots walk and talk. A dismantled mess hall. Mess hall refrigerators crated for shipment. The Squadron Area after tents have been torn down.

Date: 1944, November 6
Duration: 4 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068922
U.S. Army 1st Cavalry unit: reenactment battle against Indians at Little Big Horn; actual battle footage in World War 2 at Los Negros Islands, Pacific

A documentary titled 'Hell For Leather' shows combat activities of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division during wars. Dramatization shows a 1st Cavalry soldier seated on a step and his son touches the insignia of the U.S. 1st Cavalry division on the uniform. Reenacted footage of Cavalry unit battling Native American Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Next scene shows training of U.S. Army cavalry troops for World War 2, as they run an obstacle course and practice bayonet drills. The troops undergo combat training. They practice amphibious landings and crawling near razor wire. Animated map shows the amphibious attacks on Los Negros Island in 1944. A ship underway and soldiers on the deck of the ship. Ship guns are fired in Battle of Los Negros. The U.S. Army troops load a Landing Craft and it gets underway. They approach the shore and get off from the landing craft at the beach. The troops hold guns and advance in jungle region, firing rifles and machine guns, engaging enemy Japanese marines protecting the airfield. The U.S. Army troops firing and advancing against the Japanese. The wounded soldiers on a stretcher. The soldiers fire artillery and mortars. View of dead Japanese troops. The U.S. troops advance. U.S. General MacArthur praises a soldier. 'Bataan' written on the barrel of a gun.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069197
LCMs (Landing Craft Mechanized) underway in sea and Corregidor in the Philippine Islands is under bombardment.

Bombardment on Corregidor in the Philippine Islands during World War II. LCMs (Landing Craft Mechanized) underway at sea. Corregidor under bombardment in the background. Other ships underway at sea in the background. Mountains in the far background.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070640
Switchboard operator works and Marines at command post area rest and talk on telephone at Peleliu, Palau Islands.

U.S. Marine Corps communication activities at Peleliu, Palau Islands. Switchboard at Division Command Post (CP). Switchboard operator sitting in the foreground. Wiring diagram showing disposition of wire, switchboards, and code name of units. Marine stringing wire on tree which has a large number of wires loading to switchboard, already attached to it. Group of CP Marines sitting around and resting. They talk and smoke. Tent in the background. Area around CP. Marines sitting around shelter, tent pitched, ocean in the background. Marines in dugouts. A Marine uses field telephone.

Date: 1945, June 30
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071784