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Grumman F6F Hellcat take off from the USS Essex (CV-9) aircraft carrier during the Battle of Angaur (WW2)

View of Angaur island at sunrise at start of Battle of Angaur in World War II. Aerial view of aircraft carrier. Conning tower on USS Essex. Crew member speaking on on radio headset. Pilot in cockpit of Grumman F6F Hellcat. Fighter planes gathered on deck of the USS Essex (CV-9) near the Palau Islands. Grumman F6F fighters on board start after signal from crew in conning tower. Fighters take off from flight deck. Another Grumman F6F fighter is raised to deck using aircraft lift and takes off. Fighters in formation in the air. Battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43) and four cruisers bombard Japanese positions in Angaur. Explosion on top of a hill. Trees destroyed on the coast as seen from a United States Navy ship. Naval artillery firing at Angaur. Landing craft being deployed from ships to land on Angaur.

Location: Angaur Palau Islands
Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080160
81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” troops advance through Bloody Gulch to Suicide Hill during the Battle of Angaur (WW2)

Aerial view of Peleliu Island during the Battle of Angaur in World War II. Map pointing to the location of Suicide Hill on Angaur Island. 81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” troops moving up a narrow gauge railway leading away from phosphate works into a narrow gorge called “Bloody Gulch”. Smoke from Japanese artillery is seen above the gorge. United States infantry soldiers advance along with tanks through Bloody Gulch. Tank operator talking through a radio microphone. Dramatized audio simulates tank communications while in Bloody Gulch. Infantry soldiers trail behind tanks. A tank is hit by Japanese artillery. Soldier runs past moving tanks. Wounded soldiers crawl and lay down in Bloody Gulch. Medics remove a casualty, running to avoid snipers. Infantry troops taking cover. Soldiers assemble a satchel charge. Soldiers run as explosion in front of tanks to clear the gulch. The second battalion resumes their advance. The second battalion splits up to start an encircling maneuver. Soldiers climbs while wearing flame thrower on his back. Machine gun fire towards Suicide Hill.

Location: Angaur Palau Islands
Date: 1944, September 20
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080167
U.S. 13th Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bomb Japanese airfield on Munda Point, New Georgia during World War II.

A film titled 'Air Aspects of the Campaign against Munda' based on USAAF (United States Army Air Force) activities on New Georgia group of Islands, Solomon Islands during World War II. USAAF P-38 Lightning in flight over the Solomon Islands. An animated map highlights Munda Point in New Georgia. A USAAF officer takes a look at aerial reconnaissance photographs. The officer talks over a phone at his desk. An animated map highlights Vila in Kolombangara. An animated map connects Vila and Munda Point with Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal. U.S. 13th Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bombers take off from an airfield and bomb Japanese airfield at Munda Point.

Location: New Georgia Island Solomon Islands USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060492
American troops and war correspondents at Mont Saint Michel and Saint Malo in France during World War II

American troops and war correspondents in France, during World War 2. They visit Mont Saint Michel, a small rocky island at the mouth of Couesnon River in Normandy, separating Normandy and Brittany. View of the island with a monastery at the top. War correspondent Robert Capa (of Life and of Time Magazines) looks on and takes pictures. Military jeeps leave the island. Madam Poulard stands under a sign at her Hotel Poulard. Sign for the Hotel and its reputed omelette. Soldiers on the street. Shops and French flags. GIs at the Benedictine Abbey and steepled church. An old French man points. U.S. Soldiers take a tour of the monastery with a woman guide. Steeples, towers, arches and other architectural features of the abbey and monastery. War correspondents including Charles Collingwood, Chicago Daily News' Helen Kirkpatrick, New Yorker Magazine's Joe Liebling (Abbot Joseph Liebling) and Warden Becker. Helen and Charles pose for the camera. Ernest Hemingway, covering for Colliers Magazine, drinks and talks to Bill Walton. War correspondents including Bill Stringer seated and walking on the street. They visit the monastery and take pictures. Civilians on the streets. Tall sticks in sand placed by German forces around the island to prevent Allied planes from landing at low tide. Three war orphan brothers whose parents were killed at the battle of St Lo, play on the beach as their grandmother looks on. Views of the island and patterns on the sand around the island from the receding waters of low tide. St. Malo, Brittany: Field near Saint Malo. American soldiers bathe and swim in a lake. They fool around in the water, taking a break from battle.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020912
U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard arrives at Grand Turk Island to participate in Mercury-Atlas 7 debriefings

U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft (Tail number 50-72649) arrives and parks on ramp at Grand Turk Auxiliary U.S. Air Force Base. Commander Shepard, who had just flown from Arguello, California, steps from the aircraft with his belongings. He is there to participate in the Mercury-Atlas 7 post-mission debriefings. He is met by Air force officers and Mercury project personnel.

Location: Grand Turk Island
Date: 1962, May 25
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024576
Native inhabitants of Okinawa Island, Japan

Native people of Okinawa. Japanese civilians walk on road. An elderly Okinawan woman on the street. An Okinawan man carrying a pole. A young woman and elderly woman in front of a watch shop. A Japanese woman in kimono crosses the road. Smiling Japanese men and women. Okinawan farmer tending pineapple plants. American Air Force non-commissioned officers at a bank window in a bank. Car drives past "Italian Food House Restaurant." An Okinawan farmer works on a farm. A Shinto shrine in Okinawa. Two Japanese men fix a boat. Truck at a mining site. Public union demonstrators demonstrate against United States air bases carrying red flags with Japanese writing.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1972
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025529
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