On orders from General MacArthur, the 2nd Squadron (dismounted), 5th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army on a Reconnaissance in Force mission at Los Negros,Admiralty Islands. Prior to their landing, two Spitfire aircraft of No. 73 Wing, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) are seen attacking Japanese positions in the jungles near the beach. U.S. Navy warships bombard the area and U.S. B-25 bombers from the 345th Bomb Group , 5th Air Force, drop bombs along the beach. After landing, the Reconnaissance Squadron, reinforced with other U.S. 1st Cavalry Division troops, advances into dense jungles. Troops spray the area with machine gun fire. A Squad seen firing a mortar. U.S. troops firing a field gun with "Bataan" written in chalk, on the barrel. B-25 bombers fly very low over edge of Momote airfield and drop bombs. 1st Cavalry troops battle their way against hidden Japanese forces and capture the Momote airfield. General MacArthur comes ashore and congratulates the troops. A wounded soldier carried on a stretcher. U.S. medics tend to wounded soldiers. Wounded are given plasma. Dead Japanese soldiers on ground.
U.S. Army personnel train at the MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) Recondo School in Nha Trang, Vietnam. One soldier is seen sitting offshore, in a large black rubber boat (RB-15 Zodiac) in final phase of boat swamping and up-righting exercise. Other soldiers are seen in the water all around the boat. Those in the water gradually climb aboard, as the team keeps the boat stabilized, until all are on board, out of the water. In change of scene, a team, of nine soldiers, paddles their boat away from shore. (Beach, with some soldiers wading is seen in background.) In next scene they paddle back and beach the boat. (Vietnam War period).
Marines giving first aid to other marines in Iwo Jima. Marine firing M-1 over a hill. Marine pinned down on beach. Marine firing bazooka. Marine with fouled up bar. Marine cleaning the bar. Marines in foxholes, firing rifle grenade. Marine on beach speaking over phone. Scene of a sandy terrain. (World War II period).
Beach scene at Tumon Bay, Guam in 1945, at end of World War 2 . Bathers and some small boats in water of a bay. Sand beach covered with palm trees and other semitropical flora. People seated on the sands. Water of the bay and promenatory of land in background. Different sequence, showing three U.S. Landing Craft Support, Large, LCS (L) clustered together at anchor in a bay, with buildings on shore in background. The mast of a U.S.warship. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber in flight overhead. It displays tail code of solid black square with "M" inside, identifying it as belonging to the 20th Air Force, 314th Bomb Wing, 19th Bomb Group, based at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. Camera focuses on the bomber as it passes overhead. Sailors speed into the bay, aboard a motor boat. The B-29 circles directly overhead, passing the American flag displayed on the main mast of a warship. The B-29 appears to be descending to land at the airbase.
United States Marine Corps raid the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Amphibious tractors and Landing Crafts fully loaded with soldiers, advance speedily towards the beach. High tide sea waters. Marines look towards the coast line from a landing craft. Smoke and explosion at the beach. One LCVP leads all others behind it in the tides of sea waters.
United States Marine Corps move for raid on Japanese island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Amphibious Landing Vehicles with large number of marines move speedily towards the beach of Iwo Jima. Fleet of amphibious tractors, ships and war boats racing for the coast. Smoke from explosions around the LCVs and at the beach line of Iwo Jima. Tides in sea waters by LCVs movement.
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