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Wounded U.S. Marines are transferred to an LVT and men see bombardment while seated near a Bofors 40 mm gun in Peleliu.

The invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Wounded U.S. marines lying on stretchers on a beach are given first aid. Wounded men are shifted to a Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT). Men loaded on a crane. Bulldozers level a road. Men sit near a Bofors 40 mm gun, an anti-aircraft auto cannon. Men see the bombardment.

Date: 1944, September 16
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067129
Airmen from 20th Bomber Command Headquarters, Guam, make a fun movie about pilot in cockpit of P-51 aircraft

About a month after the end of World War 2, Airmen at the Headquarters, U.S. 20th Bomber Command, Guam, Marianas Islands, try their hand at movie making for fun. Numerous takes of airman's hand on control stick in cockpit of a P-51. The first is with a glove on. Others are barehanded. He manipulates the control stick and presses weapons firing buttons. In a different scene, a "pilot" sits in cockpit of a dented P-51 and with help of contrived background appears to be flying. He acts somewhat bewildered.

Date: 1945, September 24
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067356
American Marines land and advance inland in Guadalcanal.

American Marines and the Japanese forces in Guadalcanal during World War 2. Animation depicts the Allied forces plan against the Japanese forces on islands in the Pacific Ocean. A convoy of U.S. ships. The United States Marines land on Guadalcanal. Marines running out of landing craft while under fire. The Marines move inland. Combat scenes show soldier in prone position firing rifle. A U.S. Marine firing a machine gun at enemy Japanese in jungle area inland of beach during battle. Face of Marine in fox hole. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, August
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067764
Activities of 8th Fighter Group on the deck of a ship underway in Mortoi harbor, Indonesia.

U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group on Morotai Island in Indonesia during World War II. A ship convoy anchored at Morotai harbor. The gun of a destroyer off starboard bow. The soldiers of the fighter group look out from the starboard side of the ship. The soldiers on cots on an enclosed deck. Three soldiers look out from the deck. The soldiers will full equipment, helmets, life- jackets and canteens climb up ladder to posts on the ship. They practice 'Abandon ship drill'. Soldiers in a landing craft underway. They run down a ladder wearing helmets and life belts. The soldiers wait for a signal to throw a life raft over the side of the ship. The soldiers gather around a small dog mascot. The dog. The soldiers play cards on the deck. A soldier deals cards. The soldiers talk and read on the quarterdeck. Officers gathered at a railing on the top deck.

Date: 1944, November 8
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068909
U.S. Navy ships of Task Force 58 fight against Japanese Kamikaze attacks and repair battle damage during Okinawa campaign, WW2

Opening scene shows Landing Ship Tank USS LST 1006, with her front doors open after delivering her cargo at shore of Okinawa, during World War 2. Resupply operations are seen with landing craft shuttling between transport ships. Landing ships delivering supplies and equipment directly to the shore. An Army truck drives down the ramp of a Landing Ship Tank. A huge crane installed on a vessel behind LST 633 on the Okinawa waterfront. Vehicles driving from ships to the shore from a Landing Ship Dock (LSD). Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs) numbers 606, 30, and 559 are parked at the shore, delivering vehicles to Okinawa. Suddenly Japanese Kamikaze aircraft begin attacking. View from ship in Navy Task Force 58, as its gunners shoot down a Kamikaze that crashes into the sea. View from island of an aircraft carrier, as all the anti-aircraft guns along the side her flight deck fire continuously raising lots of smoke from the gunfire. A Kamikaze plane speeding across the water at low altitude. Closeup of Navy ship gunners firing. View from a ship's deck of sky filled with tracer rounds the strike a Kamikaze airplane. It explodes into flaming pieces that fall into the ocean close to the ship. Navy gunners firing twin Bofors anti aircraft guns. Sky filled with black flak clouds and tracer bullets. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft (Kawasaki Ki-61) hit and diving straight down into the water where it explodes raising a large cloud of smoke and water. Aircraft carrier gunners firing at a low flying Kamikaze plane that passes the USS Alaska (CB-1) in the foreground and strikes an Essex-class U.S. aircraft carrier. Views of sailors on her flight deck fighting fire. Bow view from nearby ship of heavy smoke billowing from the carrier. Side view of the same. Closeup of sailors cutting holes in her flight deck to allow firefighting hoses to reach fire below. A welder using cutting torch to clear jagged pieces of metal. Firefighters hosing down the deck with foam. A Kamikaze crashes close to another Essex-class carrier, exploding at her waterline. Views of firefighting aboard that ship. Men hauling fire hoses onto the flight deck to bring ocean water up for firefighting. View from above of sailors pouring water below decks. A welder repairing a damaged stanchion. Gunners firing from the ship's superstructure as Japanese aircraft continue to maneuver among ships of Task Force 58. Streams of tracer rounds tracking a Kamikaze plane. View from above of sailors spreading foam over the flight deck. Firefighters playing hoses on pieces of destroyed Douglas Dauntless aircraft on the flight deck. External view of the severe waterline damage to the carrier. Welder working on deck. Landing officer with paddles directing a Douglas Dauntless aircraft landing on a carrier. Sailors carrying an injured flight crew member, across the flight deck on a litter. Dead covered in white shrouds laid out on the ship's deck, for burial at sea.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072097
African American troops of U.S. 96th Grave Registration Unit load dead bodies onto jeep in Okinawa during World War II.

U.S. Army Grave Registration service in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands during World War II. Soldiers in slit trenches put on personal equipment in preparation for move. African American troops of 96th Grave Registration Unit remove dead bodies from collection point and load them into a jeep. The jeep pulls away.

Date: 1945, May 14
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074422