The Battle of Tarawa between U.S. and Japanese forces during World War 2. U.S. Task Force ships head for Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. U.S. officers confer aboard a ship. A stick points out the location of Tarawa on a map of the Pacific Ocean. U.S. soldiers bow their heads in prayers aboard the ship. U.S. naval guns are fired at coastal targets. U.S. Marines in landing crafts head for Tarawa. Smoke rises from artillery shell attacks on the island. The Marines use hand grenades to destroy Japanese pillboxes and machine gun nests. Reinforcements arrive and U.S. Marines advance inland after heavy fighting. Abandoned coastal artillery guns and dead Japanese soldiers on the island. The island after the battle. Forced Korean laborers on the island. A U.S. medic giving first aid to a Korean laborer. U.S. Navy CBs (Construction Battalion) make repairs and construct an airstrip on Tarawa.
U.S. Marines and their improvised shelters on the island of Saipan in Mariana Islands, during World War 2. A Marine examines an undetonated mortar round over which a trenching tool has been placed to warn them.
U.S. Marines during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. They arrive in trucks at dock in Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. Marines work on dock and go aboard AP (transport) alongside. Convoy of AP underway. Transport area shows auxiliary ships and landing craft. Landing crafts underway lay smoke screen. Waves of landing craft underway to beach.
Forest area after invasion of Saipan in Mariana Islands. A Japanese building in the jungle. Smoke columns rises. Coastline of island. Ships in the sea. Hilly terrain.
Wrecked Japanese planes after invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. A jeep in side of plane. Bunkers at the island.
Buildings devastated during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. A crane operates. Views of devastated buildings on Island. Wrecked Japanese planes at airfield. Entrance of Japanese air raid shelter. Wrecked air strip.
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