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Men work in ordnance at PT Base in Green Island Atoll

Men work in ordnance and check the military material at PT Base in Green Island Atoll in South Pacific. Men work in communication huts. Officers briefed in operations tent.

Location: Green Island South Pacific
Date: 1944, March 12
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040962
Men on shore at PT Base in Green Island Atoll in South Pacific and U.S. Navy PT motor torpedo boats seen.

Men on shore at PT Base in Green Island Atoll in South Pacific. U.S. Navy PT motor torpedo boats seen in background. PT motor torpedo boats come near the pier. Sailors seen aboard. Men carry wounded soldier on a stretcher from PT boat to the pier. Several PT boats underway. (World War II period).

Location: Green Island South Pacific
Date: 1944, March 12
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040963
U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Squadrons on Green Island Atoll in South Pacific during World War II.

Start of film shows several U.S. Navy PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats clustered around a larger ship close to Green Atoll in the South Pacific, during World War 2. Views from a boat moving past the large camouflaged boat. The camera boat continues moving along the shore, where small tents are pitched. dense jungle covers the atoll. A landing craft (Higgins Boat) moves across the path of the camera boat. Other boats of various sizes are seen, including one with a torpedo on deck and one anchored that has a large tarpaulin tent across it, and clothes drying on a line. A PT boat passes, with crew on deck and some clothes drying on an improvised line. Distant views of several PT boats along the coast. A camouflaged PT boat passes close to the shore. Crew members from PT boat 237 are seen descending a landing net to recover the body of a PT boat captain killed in action with the Japanese. (Reportedly, a motor mechanic, who later joined the crew of Pt 237, identified some of those seen as: blond man kneeling and holding cargo net Is Olson. Slender shirtless man at far right is Bobby Leonard. Man hanging on cargo net is the skipper of 237, Lieutenant Airigo. Man at bottom right of cargo net is Al Navarre.) Camera boat moves toward the shore where a large group of sailors are waiting. Next, sailors are seen loading heavy boxes from a truck, and placing them aboard a boat backed up to the shore. They also unload something from the boat and place it in the truck. Trucks on the sandy shore are servicing PT boat 160, which has a tarp canopy overhead to protect from the sun. Change of view shows jeeps moving near a camp on shore displaying a sign reading: "Camp Tenron." Nearby some sailors stand on a raised wooden structure displaying a large painted sign showing a PT boat racing through the water and reading: "Motor Torpedo Squadrons, Green Islands." One sailor sends a signal by means of a shuttered signal lamp. Sailor ride on a truck carrying 55 gallon drums, as it enters Camp Tenron. A sailor on the raised structure looks through a telescope. Sailors on a PT boat using a line to recover something from the water beside their boat. The boat contains tarps and clothes drying on lines. A PT boat heading out on patrol. Sailor on the wooden platform uses semaphore flags to signal. On shore sailors haul boxes from a pile. Sailors seen on a chow line shaded by trees and a tent. Next, they are seen seated at tables set up under a large dining tent. Closeup of a few eating at a table.

Location: Green Island South Pacific
Date: 1944, March 12
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040964
Battlefield scenes of U.S. Marines combating Japanese forces on Eniwetok Island during World War 2.

Stark battle landscape during battle of Eniwetok. U.S. forces taking cover as Japanese resistance continues. Dead Japanese soldier on the battlefield. Burned body of a dead Japanese soldier half emerged from a fox hole. U.S. marines attack Japanese in a cave entrance with hand grenades. Flamethrowers project a long stream of fire. Fire and smoke seen. A marine walks to a motionless Japanese soldier, pokes at him with rifle, then shoots him. U.S. Marines carry wounded down the beach in Eniwetok Island.

Location: Eniwetok Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1944, February
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041028
Daring anglers hook man-eating sharks from the cabin of a huge airship in Fisher Island

Daring anglers hook man-eating sharks from the cabin of a huge airship in Fisher Island. Airship or blimp in flight. The fishermen use hook and line from the cabin of the blimp to fish for sharks. The shark is raised up in the sky by the fishing expedition. The aircraft lands. The anglers with the shark.

Location: Fisher Island Florida USA
Date: 1934, February 12
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041265
Rocket barrage fired from Wolmi-Do Island towards Inchon in Korea

Rocket barrage fired from Wolmi-Do Island towards Inchon in Korea (also spelled Incheon). Silhouette of destroyer. U.S. Marines in combat gear tying an American flag to a weather vane in a town. Marines pose near it. Marines of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines and 1st Division raise first American flag in Inchon during Korean War.

Location: Wolmi-Do Island Korea
Date: 1950, September 6
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041600
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