Aerial view showing the coast, roads, and an airstrip during a U.S. Army Air Force bombing mission at Arakabesan, Palau in World War II. Clouds of smoke rises from bomb target sites on the Japanese held island. Aerial view shows other parts of the island.
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands on 26th of October, 1942 during World War II. U.S. aircraft take off from U.S. Navy USS Hornet (CV-8) carrier at dawn. Members of crew on U.S. carrier look through binoculars. Japanese bombers formation overhead. Gun crews of USS Hornet (CV-8) attack the Japanese aircraft. Japanese aircraft in flames crash. Flak bursts in sky. USS Hornet gets torpedoed and bombed heavily. USS Hornet burns. The crew abandons the USS Hornet. Members of the crew board rescue boats. USS Hornet being sunk by torpedo attacks at night. Wounded men transferred to other U.S. ships and taken ashore. New ships being launched from shipyards in United States.
Aerial views from overflying aircraft, of Lighthouses and coast guard stations in the United States. Those seen are: Light Desert Rock lighthouse, followed by Lighthouses: Petit Manan, Nash Island, Avery Rock, Prospect Harbor, Egg Rock, Baker Island, Great Luck Island; Bass Harbor Head, Bear Island, Saddleback Ledge, Browns Head, Herons Neck, Isle of Shoals, Boone Island, Halfway Rock, Portland Breakwater, Pam Island Portland Head, Cape Elizabeth, and wood Island. The Coast Guard Stations seen are: Straitsmouth, Gloucester, Cranberry Island, Salem Air Station Isle of Shoals, Cape Elizabeth, and Biddeford Pool.
General Douglas MacArthur with Major General Verne Mudge and Lieutenant General George Churchill Kenny inspect air strip in town of Tacloban. A soldier with General MacArthur points in field. Generals and soldiers walk. General MacArthur shakes hands with General Mudge. Generals sit on jeep. Jeep backs up through water and stand near landing craft. Generals get off. Soldiers walk through water. The United States flag on boat. (World War II period).
United States army takes over village Tacloban in Philippine. A soldier stands besides a pole. House in the background. Smoke arises behind the house. United States tanks on the road. Tanks on the street of town. Houses besides the road. A soldier walks past tank, soldier watch wreckage of village. Soldiers talk to civilians. United States aircraft in flight. (World War II period).
View from a U.S. submarine anchored in a bay in the Pacific theater during World War 2. An explosion is seen at point of land in background. A team of U.S. commandos is then seen paddling an inflated raft from the shore toward the submarine.They reach the submarine and are helped aboard, along with their raft. The four commandos pose wearing their steel helmets. View from the submarine as it gets underway on the surface.
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