United States Marine Corps move for raid on Japanese island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Amphibious Landing Vehicles with large number of marines move speedily towards the beach of Iwo Jima. Fleet of amphibious tractors, ships and war boats racing for the coast. Smoke from explosions around the LCVs and at the beach line of Iwo Jima. Tides in sea waters by LCVs movement.
United States Marine Corps raid on Japanese posts at the island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. U.S. Sherman tanks use flame throwers and move towards a Japanese bunker. Sherman tanks advance in battle ground towards a Japanese post. Burning tanks on the edge of airfield. Flame throwers raid Japanese in trenches, on a ridge near airfield. A marine climbs ridge. Map of Iwo Jima marked with position of camera angle.
United States Marine Corps raid on Japanese posts at the island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. U.S. Sherman tanks drive down a hill. Marines carry their injured Group Commander on a stretcher. Colonel Cushman Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion points out targets to Captain Schmidt. Officers study maps and plan strategies in a trench.
United States Marine Corps in battlefield during raid on Japanese posts at the island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. Marines of the 2nd Battalion climb up a hill while gunfire continues. Marines lay flat beside a ridge to protect themselves. Marine soldiers running in open space towards enemy posts. Bomb explosions, smoke and flames all across the battlefield. A Japanese cave explodes giving smoke and flames. Flame throwers in the battlefield.
Views of Manhattan, Brooklyn and other areas of New York City. A crowd of men and women near the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) building. Tourists step inside a sight seeing boat at harbor. Freighters, tugs and ferryboats at the harbor. People seen walking near the buildings and in Central Park in Manhattan. Skyline and water front areas of Manhattan Island, and views of tall buildings and early skyscrapers of New York City . Tourist boats in Hudson River pass under the Brooklyn Bridge.
View from a sight-seeing boat on the Hudson River at New York City, showing Grant's Tomb on a bluff above, circa 1919. (The tomb of President Ulysses S. Grant, in Riverside Park was completed in 1897. In the background, to the North, can be seen the Claremont Inn and Hendrik Hudson apartments. Following a slate reading "Hudson River," the film captures the scenes as the boat moves south along the Hudson. Grant's Tomb is still seen at the extreme north end of the view. But a cluster of tall apartment buildings dominates the bluff above the river. Closeup of a U.S. Pennsylvania-class Armored Cruiser anchored in the Hudson river, with small boats around it and men boarding her from them. Apartment buildings on Riverside Drive in the background. View progresses close to Manhattan Island, where Pier 7 of the U.S. Army Transport Service is seen with ships docked on either side. A docked ship emits heavy black smoke from one of its funnels. A commercial ferry boat passes in front of the camera vessel. More views of ocean-going ships docked on the Hudson river side of Manhattan. Smoke is coming from some of their stacks. The Hudson Terminal with the Singer Building and City Investing Building in the background. The Singer Building tower dominates the center of the view and the taller Woolworth Building is seen to its left (North), at 233 Broadway. Next are views of the Battery on the tip of Manhattan. The large low round structure in the foreground is the Castle Clinton housing the city aquarium. The prominent tall building behind it, to the left, is the Whitehall building at Battery Place. As the camera pans south around the tip of Manhattan, some sight-seeing boats are shown, docked at the waterfront.
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