U.S. military engineers employ heavy equipment during joint-services exercises in Puerto Rico. Caterpillar tractor pulls a tournapull (road scraper). Front of the road scraper as it cuts into ground. Man hooks up cable tournapull. It scoops up coral from ground. Wheels of the vehicle roll on ground. tournapull loaded with coral moves downhill.
USS Shangri La (CV-8) for Operation crossroads at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Isalnds. A small boat with a U.S. flag leaves from the side of USS Shangri La. The name Shangri La written on the ship.
U.S. convoy departs for Okinawa operation. View from side of ship, convoy leaves Ulithi Harbor. LST (Landing Ship, Tank) sails ahead. Craft with signal flags up. Anchor comes up from water. Ship rides roughly in sea.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston visits the Arctic region to study Arctic fisheries and fur seals. A group of men throws fur seal pelts into a room. A man sprays water through a pipe. They wash the fur seal pelts. People walk in and out of a building. Claude Huston and other officials stand in front of a building.
Survivors of German U-Boat attacks off the USA coast during WWI are given tickets by an officer as they disembark from a ship. Survivors massed on pier. A crew of sailors stand in front of their encampment. A short sailor smiles as he smokes a pipe. View of destroyer in harbor. Men, probably more survivors, exit from the hold of a ship. Men, woman, and children walk together through a train yard. Women and children pose with officers. Three children seated together, one wearing a sailor's cap. Brief shot of the U.S. Capitol building dome in Washington at night.
Invasion of Okinawa. U.S. Army and Navy headquarters in Guam, Pacific Ocean. Army and Navy officers walk along path in exteriors of building. Officer arrives to his flagship at fleet's starting point. U.S. convoy underway at sea. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Admiral Mitscher and Admiral Richmond K Turner in conference examine map. Map shows Kerama Islands near Okinawa. U.S. convoy underway and naval bombardment. Landing crafts advance toward island in Kerama group. Amphibious landings on islands in the Kerama group by 77th Division and the 305th Regimental Combat Team. Troops advance and fight enemy. Dead Japanese soldiers. U.S. soldiers question Japanese prisoners and natives. (World War II period).
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