An Allied invasion convoy in Italy during World War II. Smoke rises from a beach. Allied ships and landing crafts underway. A portable dock placed in position on a beachhead. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank) at the end of the dock. Soldiers get off the LST. Military equipment being unloaded from the LST. Trucks and other vehicles move across water and come ashore. DUKWs ( amphibious trucks) come onto the coast.
' A Fifth Army report from beachhead' about United States amphibious ladings in Anzio, Italy during World War II. A U.S. convoy in Naples Harbor. U.S. 5th Army supply trucks and equipment leave for Anzio. Soldiers loaded in trucks. An invasion fleet in the harbor. Equipment and troops being loaded onto vessels. LSTs ( Landing Ship Tanks) underway for Anzio. Barrage balloons in flight over the convoy. Troops and equipment aboard a ship. Soldiers aboard the vessels. A captain checks a navigational compass. Officers look at a map. A soldier carries a dog. Naval guns being fired at German airplanes during an air raid. Bombs explode in water. U.S. 5th Army equipment being unloaded from the vessels at a beach in Anzio.
German prisoners of war at work digging graves for fallen American soldiers, at the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944, shortly after the D-Day invasion of Normandy (Operation Overlord). This is the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II, and located on a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach and the English Channel, east of St. Laurent-sur-Mer and northwest of Bayeux in Colleville-sur-Mer. (It is now the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial.) Vertical posts with dog tags attached, mark the gravesites of the fallen troops. American soldiers sit near covered dead bodies of the fallen and perform tasks of identification and grave assignment. Covered remains of one soldier are carried across the field on a stretcher. Barrage balloons are seen in the sky overhead.
United States Marines during Allied operations in Guam, Mariana Islands, World War II. Palm trees on the beach. Some of them uprooted. United States Marine Corps and dogs of the Canine Corps march inland in Guam. Marines in a tent. A sign outside a tent reads 'COFS'. Officers talk in the tent area. A sign reads 'CG'. Marines advance across a field. Marines near a Japanese coastal defense gun emplacement. Men in the emplacement. A Marine smokes a cigarette. Marines in the foreground as smoke rises in the background.
United States Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War 2. Flame trees in bloom. Lake Susupe from Fina Susu Ridge, overlooking Aslito Road, back toward the landing beaches around Charan-Kanoa. Marines cook food over fire. Marines seated with sand bag mounds in the background. Japanese prisoners carry gear. A Marine comes out of a building as he smokes. Men board a DUKW (amphibious vehicle) as it moves away.
Unloading supplies in Saipan Islands during World War II. Jeeps and trucks on the beach. Smoke rises from the background. Men unload supplies from a LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized). A sling in a hoist being lowered in a truck. A man operates a crane as it picks up a wooden plank. Shells on ground. Wrecked equipment lying on ground. Soldiers load supply boxes onto a LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked).
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