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United States 81st ("Wildcat") Infantry Division soldiers board ship in Hawaii for Pacific mission (WW2)

Robert C. Richardson Jr., Commanding General of U.S. Army Forces in the Central Pacific Area, stands with his staff personnel outside headquarters in Hawaii. United States soldiers with the 81st ("Wildcat") Infantry Division on trucks heading to port during World War II. Soldiers with their supplies boarding the ship. Ships sailing out of Hawaii. Animated map shows the Pacific Ocean and important islands such as Hawaii, Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal), Palau (Angaur), and the Philippines. Servicemen spend their free time on deck of ship. Two bald servicemen chatting with their friends. Soldiers sleeping in their quarters on board ship. A shirtless soldier combs his hair. Soldiers play instruments in ship orchestra. Soldiers watch and clap for the band onboard ship.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080154
German assault on a Soviet position on the frozen-over lake Peipus in Estonia, during World War 2.

Procession of German tanks and military vehicles transporting German soldiers in the Narva sector, north of Lake Peipus, Estonia, during WW2. Shot of German anti-aircraft gun. The supply procession moves through cold winter weather. Horses dusted with snow pull a carriage. A German soldier attempts to light a cigarette outside and fails, requiring the lighter of another soldier inside a vehicle, protected from the wind. A German assault team wearing white winter camouflage walk across the ice of Lake Peipus, carrying assault rifles. The German soldiers approach a Soviet-occupied island on the lake. German field artillery fires on the Soviet island position, enabling the assault team to move forward. Shot of the German assault team walking through a forest, smoking buildings visible just outside the treeline. German assault team advances to the buildings to capture the Soviets. A German soldier uses a flamethrower to ignite hay in a barn. Soviet prisoners of war (POW) walk in single file with arms raised. A Soviet counterattack coming from across the ice is stopped by German firepower. Close up shots of German soldiers firing on the Soviets using rifles, machine guns, and artillery.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080954
U.S. LSTs (Landing Ships, Tank) attacked by a submarine off the coast of Kwajalein during a United States military test.

United States military tests off the coast of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. U.S. LSTs (Landing Ships, Tank) attacked by a submarine underway. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074765
Newsreel 'US Forces take key Jap. bases in Central Pacific'

U.S. Troops land, advance and fight on Makin Island in Pacific Ocean. Dive bombers strafe and bomb Japanese bases. A soldier talks on radio. U.S. Army tanks seen. Huge explosion and fires. Korean laborers and dead enemy soldiers seen. Lt. Colonel James Roosevelt seen. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040788
Japanese amphibious assault on Pacific Island early in World War II

First scene shows Japanese soldiers in a landing craft displaying their Naval Rising Sun flag, during World War 2. Other landing craft are behind them in the background. Closeup of Japanese soldiers transferring from small boats to climb aboard a transport ship. Japanese soldiers, in small boat, watch the large transport ship leaving the harbor. Brief glimpse of Japanese troops rushing ashore from landing craft, followed by them climbing up a concrete structure with black smoke billowing in the background. Map reflecting Japanese territorial ambitions in the Pacific, emanating from Japan.

Date: 1941
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071821
Secretary of War, Dwight Davis, and his party, return to Honoulu, after visiting military sites in Hawaiian Islands..

Camera pans into crater of Kilauea volcano, where someone has scrawled an inscription in the lava (not readable). Scene shifts to Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis, and Hawaii Territorial Governor, Wallace R. Farrington, stepping out of the local volcano museum, onto a patio, where other persons are standing. Scene shifts to deck of the battleship, USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) where Secretary Davis stands near the railing. Closeup of Major General Fox Conner, Commander of the U.S. Army Hawaii Department, standing with Rear Admiral Robert R. Marvel, aboard the Pennsylvania. Marines firing gun salute with artillery field pieces as the Pennsylvania arrives at Pier 5 in Pearl Harbor. Secretary Davis on the dock, with his party including: daughters, Alice and Cynthia; Civilian aide, John H. Holliday and Military Aide, 1st Lieutenant Lester J. Maitland. The daughters are assisted as they enter a car. Next, Secretary Davis and Aide Holliday, enter a car displaying the Secretary of War Flag on its hood.

Date: 1928, August 20
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022678