Final phase in battle of Saipan, during World War 2. U.S. marine throws hand grenade at Japanese defenders dug in bunker on the island. After the grenade explodes, marines fire rifles at the bunker. Bodies of two fallen Japanese soldiers.
Japanese air raid on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Tracers, flares, and bomb bursts during Japanese night raid. Several attacking planes crash. Blazing hangars and demolished U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers and B-29 Superfortress bombers on the ground. Bulldozers remove the wrecked aircraft from an airstrip. Men try to put off fire. Smashed trucks, jeeps and aircraft being inspected by U.S. soldiers.
Amphibious operation by U.S. Marines and Army Troops at Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall islands during World War II. Film taken from onboard the attack transport USS Neville, APA-9. Starboard side view of the battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43, in measure 32/1d camouflage. Starboard side view of the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, CA-35, 1943 measure 21 camouflage. Port side view of the battleship USS Pennsylvania, BB-38, in measure 21 camouflage. Port side view of the battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43, in measure 32/1d camouflage. Stern view of hospital ship USS Solace, AH-5. Smoke rises from the coast of the atoll from bombardment. Marines of the 22nd Marine Regiment on the deck of USS Neville preparing to board landing craft. LCV being lowered along side the ship into the sea. LCV (Landing Craft, Vehicle) loaded with troops pulls away. Landing Crafts Personnel underway as they circle. Other attack transport ships in the background. LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) comes up on a beach at Eniwetok Atoll.
Battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43, crew handles lines as a destroyer comes alongside during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands, in World War 2. Ammunition transferred from the Tennessee to destroyer USS Phelps, DD-360. Sailors carry projectiles and slide powder cases down a plank to the USS Phelps.
An U.S. Marine handles a captured Japanese gun sighting or artillery sighting device device during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. Marine with captured Japanese light machine gun on the ground.
History and story of the Seabees. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks speaks in his office in Washington, DC. A view of the U.S. Capitol building through his window. He gives a brief history of the Seabees and introduces the film. Retrospective footage shows a formation of Japanese warplanes. Views of Honolulu, Hawaii, Midway, Taviti, and Wake Islands. U.S. civilian construction workers. Hickam and Wheeler fields, in Hawaii, being bombed by Japanese airplanes during attack on December 7, 1941. U.S. Navy ships in Pearl Harbor burning. U.S. casualties on stretchers. American soldiers raising the flag with fire and smoke behind them. Seebee recruitment poster. Volunteers going to enlist. Navy Seabee trainees learning military and construction skills. Practicing methods of rapid construction for combat zones. Trainees negotiating obstacle courses. Amphibious assault training. Seabee units parading in dress whites, followed by Seabees in some of their combat vehicles: DUKWs, construction graders, and bulldozers. U.S. Navy sailors loading onto railroad train cars as a newly trained battalion of Seabees leaving training camp by train. A band plays seeing them off. Seabees loading up at a port of embarkation. A troop ship seen. The troop ship moving away from the wharf, with help from tugboat. (World War II period).
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