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General Spaatz decorates Sergeant Klabo with Legion of Merit award in Tinian, Mariana Island during World War II.

General Carl Spaatz in Tinian, Mariana Island during World War 2. A Military Police officer salutes as a jeep arrives. U.S. Army officers step from the jeep. Four officers stand under a tree. A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-29 aircraft with a sign on the fuselage that reads ' Goin Jessie. ' General Carl Spaatz , USAAF Chief of Staff, pins a Legion of Merit medal on Master Sergeant Einar (Curly) Klabo. Klabo salutes the General. Crew men lift Klabo on their shoulders. ( Note: "Goin Jessie" flew 50 combat missions with the 9th Bomb Group, 5th Squadron, while M/Sgt Klabo was her crew chief. She never had an abort.)

Location: Tinian Island Mariana Islands
Date: 1945, August 6
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059565
United States 27th Infantry Division in Makin Islands, Kirabati during World War II.

Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2 Beach at Makin island with damaged palm trees and debris. Hulks of sunken Japanese ships in water. A damaged Japanese building at the coast. A fuel dump camouflaged by palm trees. Wrecked Japanese buildings. United States troops, of the 27th Infantry Division gathered in a wrecked Japanese building. A soldier stands near a medium caliber Japanese coastal gun. He picks up a shell and holds it over his head.

Location: Makin Island Kiribati Islands
Date: 1943, November
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059698
Dead Japanese soldiers in an anti tank trench in Makin Islands, Kirabati during World War II.

Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. troops of the 27th Infantry Division advance along the water front in Makin Island. Dead Japanese soldiers lying on ground. LST (Landing Ship Tank) and a LSD (Landing Ship Dock) at anchor. Dead Japanese soldiers lying in an anti tank trench. A soldier stands with a native as he points at the trench.

Location: Makin Island Kiribati Islands
Date: 1943, November
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059699
A bulldozer hauls material from a LSM in Makin Islands, Kirabati during World War II.

Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A bulldozer hauls equipment on a beach at Makin Island. Bulldozer hauls material in cargo nets out of LSM (Landing Ship, Mechanized). A fighter flies overhead at night. Silhouetted palm trees.

Location: Makin Island Kiribati Islands
Date: 1943, November
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059700
U.S. Army troops make amphibious assault on Makin Island in World War II

A flotilla of U.S. landing craft, filled with U.S. Army troops from the 27th Infantry Division approach the beach at Japanese-held Makin Island during World War 2. Some of the landing craft (Higgins boats) are from the Attack Transport ship, USS Leonard Wood (APA-12) and others are from the USS Calvert (APA-32). A Benson-Livermore class (AKA Benson-Gleaves class) Destroyer is visible offshore. As the landing craft beach, the troops wade ashore, with difficulty, through hip-deep water, in places. Back on one of the transport ships, sailors lower a bulldozer for transport to the beach. They also lower rolls of matting over the side. These cargoes are seen at the beachhead, as well as a Sherman tank moving through the surf onto the rocky shore.

Location: Makin Island Kiribati Islands
Date: 1943, November 20
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076187
U.S. Army troops occupying Makin Island during World War II

A column of U.S. Army troops from elements of the 27th Infantry Division, make their way through destroyed Japanese structures on Makin Island, during World War 2. They patrol through jungles and engage in fire fights with Japanese defenders. One U.S. Army soldier carries a wounded soldier on his back. U.S. troops occupy an area of thatched roof huts. U.S. Army M3 Lee medium tanks moving across the sand. A wrecked Japanese ship in the surf. More views of U.S. M3 Lee tanks firing at the wrecked ship. U.S. aircraft bombing Japanese ships near the shore.

Location: Makin Island Butaritari Islands
Date: 1943, November 20
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076188
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