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U.S. B-24s bomb the Japanese position in Kiska Island, Alaska during World War II.

American air raid on Japanese positions on Kiska Island in the United States during World War II. Rainbow across the sky. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 aircraft take off. Aircraft in flight. Bombs being dropped. Bombardier aboard an airborne plane. Bombs impact and smoke rises.

Date: 1942
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059554
U.S. Army Soldiers interviewed at a hillside encampment in Aleutian Islands, Alaska (WW2)

American soldiers interviewed as they sit on a hill in Aleutian Island, Alaska. Soldiers answer the questions asked to them. Questions and answers about Alaska, about what the men were doing before the war, and whether they'd rather be fighting Nazi German or the Japanese soldiers in World War II (answer was Japanese).

Date: 1943, August 6
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058445
Role of the Jeep in U.S. military operations during World War II.

A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) Waco CG-4A-WO glider is seen descending and landing in a grass field. Upon touchdown, its front pops open and and an army jeep drives out. USAAF C-47 aircraft are seen next, offloading jeeps pulling small artillery pieces, and infantry who move rapidly from the parked aircraft. Jeeps traversing a high hump in a dirt road. A jeep towing an M-3 Antitank Gun 37mm, and others driving through underbrush and bouncing over rough road while towing 37mm guns and trailers. Soldiers stepping from jeeps to set up machine guns. American soldiers playing a game of horse and rider, during a break in duties. Soldiers setting up mortars. Jeeps driving through bodies of water. Two M4A1 (76)W Sherman tanks, with cast steel hulls, drive into a stream. Troops setting up several 37mm guns on a river bank. Two soldiers in a communications jeep. Army officers perusing a map laid out on the hood of a jeep. U.S. field artillerymen using periscopic binoculars on tripods, to spot and direct gunfire. Military vehicles, including jeeps, moving across desert terrain. Artillery crews firing M59 (M2 Long Tom) 155mm guns. A Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft flying overhead. Jeeps in various roles, bouncing along in the desert and laying smoke screens. Jeeps equipped with M3 anti-aircraft guns and others with stretchers for wounded affixed to their sides. U.S. Army Ford GPA "Seep" amphibious jeeps plunging into water and continuing on as boats. A jeep production and assembly line in a U.S. factory showing stages of assembly and finished jeeps driving out of the plant into yards containing hundreds of them. A convoy of jeeps driving over a bridge, and others carrying a U.S. military brass band in a parade in England. A Hollywood actress (Gloria Swanson?) being lifted into a jeep by several men. Glimpse of an unidentified actress with an American soldier, in a jeep. Hollywood stars, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy clowning in the front seat of a jeep with Desi Arnaz and two women riding in the back. Several jeeps carrying these and other Hollywood personalities during a war bond parade in Washington DC. The Capitol looming in the background as the jeeps move away from it toward the camera. Jeeps being prepared for transport to overseas destinations. Some being enclosed in wooden crates and placed on rail cars. Jeeps being hauled by cranes and placed aboard ships. Landing crafts mechanized (LCMs) transporting infantry and vehicles, including jeeps. An M4A1 Sherman tank driving out of a landing craft into surf. A jeep being driven onto beach at Adak,in the Aleutians,from a landing craft of the USS J.Franklin Bell (AP-34), in 1942. In 1943, this transport ship was reclassified as APA-16.) American troops with jeep on a South Pacific island in World War 2. A soldier on motorcycle, skids in mud on road in North Africa, and jeeps drive past him. American soldiers ride camels and some drive in a jeep near the Great pyramid and Sphinx in Egypt. Jeeps seen in China, with Generals Joseph Stilwell and Claire Chennault. One parked next to a Flying Tiger P-40 airplane. Soldiers in a jeep in Alaska, next to a tent and sign pointing to "Tokyo." Local tribesmen literally carrying a jeep, on long poles, across a river in Timor. General Douglas MacArthur, accompanied by staff officers, being driven in a jeep along a jungle road in New Guinea, past a line of local tribesmen. Wendell Wilkie, serving as Ambassador-at-large, during the war, speaks to U.S. officers in a jeep. Britain's King George VI in a jeep followed by another carrying Queen Elizabeth. President Franklin D. Roosevelt riding in a jeep to review troops. He removes his hat as they pass the American flag. Sign on a building in North Africa reads "Bizerte." General George S. Patton, standing in a jeep during a victory parade in North Africa. Soldiers at an outdoor religious service during the war with the hood of a jeep serving as a make shift altar.Various views of jeeps driving with soldiers in them.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042283
Amphibious Task Force 9 soldiers carry supply boxes in Aleutian Island, Alaska

Amphibious Task Force 9 soldiers carry supply boxes in Aleutian Island, Alaska. Wrecked Japanese air planes and huts on the island. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058406
American troops complete its occupation of Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska

'US completes occupation Attu Island '. American soldiers move across snow covered slopes at Attu in Aleutian Island. Dead Japanese soldiers in trenches. American troops move in single file, up the hill as artillery fires. Wounded soldier carried by two other soldiers. Soldiers look at Japanese equipment at a camp. Graves of Japanese soldiers. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058481
American soldiers loaded in landing crafts move to invade Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska

Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) and LCMs loaded with helmeted American soldiers shove off to invade Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska Ships cut through choppy sea and fog en route the sea. A transport ship as beam of light from its searchlight shines through the fog. Landing barges move through choppy waters for invasion point. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, November 16
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058379