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Dead American marines during the battle of Tarawa in Pacific Theater
Landing craft on a beach at Tarawa in Pacific Theater. Various types of small crafts underway in sea and United States Navy landing crafts beached. Supply boxes on a pier and dead American marines on litters. Marines walk up a pier. (World War II period).
Japanese and Korean prisoners guarded by American marines during the battle of Tarawa in Pacific Theater
After the battle of Tarawa in Pacific Theater. Battered palm trees and wreckage on the beach in Tarawa. American marines in a Japanese bunker. A group of Japanese prisoners sit on a beach as marines guard them. Marines carry boxes up to the beach. Korean prisoners carry wounded and supplies along a road guarded by American marines. Japanese and Korean prisoners searched and guarded by marines. Wounded Japanese and Korean prisoners lie on the stretchers. Prisoners squat on a beach. Small tractor hauls a captured torpedo on dolly up the beach. (World War II period).
U.S. Marines rest and build bunkers during the battle of Tarawa in Pacific Theater
After the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific Theater. U.S. Marines wade through a portion of a lagoon towards a pier. LVT (Landing Vehicle Traced) on the beach. Marines build bunkers and put sand bags on the beach. A marine lies in a trench, marines relax, sit and talk. Marines mill about building foxholes and carry supplies on the beach. Fire at a building among palm trees. Japanese dugout with dead in it. A dead Japanese inside a bunker whereas another dead Japanese lies next to the bunker. A Marine with two rifles in his hand. (World War II period).
Marine Major General HM Smith and Air Force Major General Willis H Hale on Tarawa
After the battle of Tarawa in Pacific Theater. Marine Major General HM Smith and Air Force Major General Willis H Hale, commander of the 7th Army Air Force, talk to each other on a beach in Tarawa. Two Air Force officers talk to Army nurses. Officers enter R4D plane. (World War II period).
Day two of the amphibious assault on Betio, Tarawa atoll, by U.S. 2nd Marine Division, during World War II in the Pacific.
U.S. Marines of 2nd Marine Division setting up communications on beachhead of Betio, Tarawa Atoll, on day two of their amphibious assault against Japanese forces there, in World War 2. Individual marines moving low and fast across the sand, as gunfire sounds all around. Casualties being moved on litters. Entire area under fire with destruction everywhere. Marines taking cover wherever possible. Some firing machine gun from sandbagged position. Area covered by smoke from gunfire and explosions. Marines shielded by remains of Japanese structures as they move about, engaged in fierce fire fights. More wounded being tended. Marines using hand grenades and flame throwers against Japanese soldiers in fortified positions. Marines moving carefully across series of Japanese positions, checking for remaining Japanese defenders. Several move against a Japanese position in a hill, using small arms hand grenades and flame thrower. Many dead Japanese soldiers are seen on the other side of the hill, after it is taken. Marine carrying a machine gun and setting it up. An ambulatory wounded marine.
Marines fire at Japanese soldiers occupying abandoned U.S. landing craft during Battle of Tarawa in World War II
Activities of U.S. 2nd Marine Division during the Battle of Tarawa during World War 2. U.S. marines firing at their own abandoned landing craft in the surf, where Japanese soldiers have infiltrated at night and set up machine guns. M3 Stuart light tank on sand at water's edge, with image of an elephant and word, "Colorado" painted on its side. On day two of the assault, marines, are still seen occupying a limited beachhead. They fire mortars at the Japanese defenders. Scene further inland, show hill with destroyed Japanese fortification and smoke rising, as Marines fire their weapons. A Marine steps from rubble of destroyed Japanese position and moves forward. (The M3 tank is seen in background.) Marines hunkered down in debris. One marine firing at a Japanese sniper in a tree. Narrator comments that snipers don't fall when hit (presumably tied in place). Scenes of heavy firefights. Marines with an M3 tank in the thick of it. Destroyed Japanese structures and denuded palm trees. Rubble everywhere. Fires burning and continuous sounds of gunfire.
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