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A convoy of American battle and transport ships underway in Pacific Theater

A convoy of transport and battle ships underway in Pacific Theater to bombard Tarawa Island. A SOC seagull plane on catapult in the foreground. United States Navy Tennessee underway with American flag and signal flags hoisted onto it. A man on board the ship looks seawards through the binoculars. United States Navy ship Colorado underway in the sea. (World War II period).

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048155
Wounded U.S. Marines arines taken away on crafts for medical aid in Pacific Theater

United States Marines at work around an equipment while on their way to invade Tarawa Island in Pacific Theater during World War II. A motor launched from hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5) and wounded loaded onto it. USS Solace anchored in harbor off shore Tarawa. Wounded marines lowered down the side of an unidentified ship. A captain giver orders over a megaphone on flying bridge of the ship. Signalman sends blinker signal. LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) underway in the sea.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943, November 20
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048158
American marine officers discuss about the invasion of Tarawa on board a ship in Pacific Theater

United States marine officers stand against the rail on a ship as they converse one of them has a binoculars around his neck. A Marine Colonel speaks to the officers on the deck of an invasion ship. Several officers stand around the mock up of Tarawa Island and converse about the invasion on board a transport ship.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943, November 20
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048160
Frank Knox arrives at Patuxent River; assorted other scenes of Japanese military leaders and allied military leaders

A government official arrives by a plane and greeted by military officer during World War 2. Next scene is unrelated and shows Japanese General Hideki Tojo and an aide seated at a ceremony, with Imperial Japanese navy pilots seated behind and others including civilians in the audience. Next scene shows officers of Navy of Imperial Japan in conference as they examine a map on a ship deck. Scene shifts to another greeting of unnamed Allied officials meeting and greeting at an airstrip. Next scene shows a Pacific Island battlefield with both dead troops on beach area and live American troops walking nearby. Next scenes shows U.S. Secretary of Navy, Frank Knox, as he arrives at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in a plane. Frank Knox and other officials leave. Various views of radio towers are seen in between scenes in the clip.

Location: Patuxent River Maryland USA
Date: 1943, August
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051791
A Greek ship with Chief of Maritime Operations Lieutenant Colonel Taylor on board underway in a harbor in Alexandria, Egypt.

A harbor in Alexandria, Egypt is used as a base for operations by Maritime Section during World War II. Greek ship Caique is used by U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Taylor for smuggling arms and food into small Greek islands. Caique ship underway with soldiers and Chief of Maritime Operations Lieutenant Colonel Taylor on board.

Location: Alexandria Egypt
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058181
War industries lead to overcrowded cities and lead to problems of housing, education and congestion in Mobile, Alabama (WW2)

"War Town" shows how War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. A large number of war workers at a shipyard in Mobile as they go to work building ships for the war effort in World War 2. Cranes at the shipyard. Men work at the shipyard as they fit Allied torpedoes. The men weld and rivet ship parts. Men work in various other factory and manufacturing industries like paper, aluminum, gypsum, steel, and machine shops supporting need for war material. Many men move out walking through the gates of the "Alabama Dry Dock and Ship Building Company" in Pinto Island, Mobile, Alabama. Many people in war materiel industry leads to congestion on roads and traffic on streets of Mobile. Crowd of workers on foot leaving manufacturing areas. Crowd of workers tries to board a city bus. Woman bus driver puts full bus in gear and drives away. Bus, car, and pedestrian traffic in Mobile on street corner with W.T. Grant Company in background. Long queues outside liquor stores, restaurants, and pay windows. Overcrowded schools as children exit the Barton Academy (Barton Academy Foundation P. O. Box 571 Mobile, Alabama 36601-0571) and are seen playing on playgrounds. Men drink in a crowded bar and men and women dance in a makeshift tented dance hall. Various rides including a Ferris wheel at an amusement park.

Location: Mobile Alabama USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059206
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