View from boat in the water as a U.S. F6F Hellcat aircraft takes off from Torokina fighter strip, Cape Torokina, Bougainville, during World War 2. The aircraft climbs out directly overhead. A small boat is seen at the beach and military vehicles move along the airfield roads. A P-39 aircraft taxis onto the runway and takes off in the opposite direction from the just-departed F6F. Military engineer equipment is seen working on the airstrip. A number of P-39s are parked beside the runway, close to surrounding trees. An F4U Corsair aircraft takes off towards the water (and camera), passing directly over a construction tractor working on the field. Another Corsair takes off over the heads of two armed sentries, and yet, another takes off immediately afterwards. View from the water, as an F4U flies low overhead toward the field for landing.
U.S. ships underway at a sea in the South West Pacific Theater of World War II. A shoreline with trees on the beach in background. Formation of 6 aircraft in the sky. CLs (Light Cruisers) underway at the sea. Hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9) underway.
Bombardment on beach of Kerama Retto, Okinawa in Pacific Theater. LSMs (Landing Ship, Medium), destroyer ships and battle ships underway. Rockets fired from ships. Rocket barrage fired. Black smoke rises up. Mountains and island in the background. (World War II period).
A Japanese standard barge under camouflage on a beach in Okinawa, Pacific Theater during World War II. Troops stand on the barge. African American troops sit at the base of a Japanese monument. They embark amphibious truck DUKW.
A Japanese suicide boat at a cave in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. Boxes kept near the cave. A U.S. Marine stands near the suicide boat. Wreckage of a Japanese vehicle. Tracks of Japanese Marine Railway in wooded area. Wreckage on the tracks. A view of the beach.
United States amphibious invasion of small islands in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Men load supplies for Marines. Equipment and trucks loaded. 7th Infantry Division troops on landing crafts. Troops land on island. Landing craft beached. Combat between Japanese troops and U.S. Marines. Wounded soldiers given aid. Several Japanese soldiers surrender. A man holds the forms 'Prisoner of War'. Japanese prisoners on island. Destroyed aircraft, equipment and buildings in view. Wounded soldiers carried on stretchers in landing craft. The wounded lifted in ships. Dead bodies on the island. The U.S. flag.
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