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U.S. troops of the 27th Infantry Division walk with natives through the jungle in Makin Islands, Kirabati during World War II.

Outtakes from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. troops of the 27th Infantry Division and a group of natives talk. Soldiers and natives walk in a jungle. A wrecked thatched house as a soldier stands guard in the background. A jeep comes down a road as it pulls a small caliber gun.

Date: 1943, November
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059702
Soldiers of the 165th Infantry dig foxholes and walk through the jungle in Makin Islands, Kirabati during World War II.

Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A U.S. Soldier of the 165th Infantry Regiment 27th Infantry Division digs a foxhole Soldiers gathered in a jungle. Some of them loaded onto a jeep as others stand on ground. Soldiers walk down a road as they advance. Two Soldiers inspect a Japanese tank in revetment. Soldiers advance through a jungle. An uprooted palm tree in the foreground.

Date: 1943, November
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059703
U.S. troops of the 27th Infantry division dispose of fallen Japanese soldiers in Makin Islands, Kirabati during World War II.

Outtakes from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. Dead Japanese soldiers in an anti tank trench that also has some water. Soldiers, of the U.S. 27th Infantry Division, carry remains of a Japanese soldier on a stretcher and unload the body into the burial trench. A column of U.S. soldiers walks along a sand path, past destroyed Japanese built structures. Views of destroyed buildings.

Date: 1943, November
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059704
U.S. troops take key Japanese bases in the Makin Islands during the World War II.

Allied Forces advance during the World War II. U.S. troops fight on the Makin Islands in the Pacific. Animated map of Makin Islands. The U.S. soldiers waddle in water to reach the shore. They move through jungle terrain. A soldier talks on the radio. More troops and tanks come in. U.S. planes bomb and strafe the Japanese positions. Captured Korean laborers sit. Dead Japanese soldiers. Lieutenant Colonel James Roosevelt drinks from a cup. Tanks and infantry move forward.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033483
U.S. Marine Raiders standing near a deck gun and doing physical fitness drills aboard USS Nautilus underway in the Pacific Ocean en route to Makin Island.

USS Nautilus (SS-168) underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. Marine Raiders of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion “Carlson’s Raiders” aboard the submarine. They stand near a deck gun. The marines do calisthenics physical fitness drills aboard the submarine. Marines stretching and raising their arms during exercise. The sub is en route to Makin island for the famous Makin Raid of August 17th and 18th, 1942.

Date: 1942, August 11
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076179
Condensed highlights of U.S. forces engaging Japanese in Pacific island-hopping campaign (WW2)

Aerial view from high altitude, shows convoy of American warships underway in the Pacific War in 1943 (World War II). Nearest ship seen is an aircraft carrier. Illustrated globe and animated map show a Naval Task Force headed through the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. Three U.S. Navy Douglas Dauntless dive bombers seen flying in formation with an aircraft carrier steaming in the background. Glimpse of more aircraft carriers. Sailors in the powder handling room of the Cruiser USS Chicago (CA-29) carrying cylinders of powder for her 8-inch guns. Sailors, stripped to the waist, in one of her gun turrets, load an 8-inch shell and powder charges into the breech of one of Chicago's guns. Interesting view from below, as they close the breech and step back as the gun fires. Glimpse of Naval guns firing from a U.S. warship. Another view of sailors loading an 8-inch gun on the USS Chicago. (Note: The USS Chicago was lost between Rennel Island and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on 30 January 1943.) A Baltimore Class Cruiser firing its guns. Flashes from naval guns firing from several American warships in close succession. Fire directed at the shore of a Japanese held island. Gun camera footage from a U.S. warplane strafing Japanese aircraft on the ground at an enemy air base. More gun camera footage of strafing and bombing. Closeup of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Liberator bomber in flight, with others in the background. Views from U.S. Aircraft as their bombs strike Japanese targets on the ground below. A U.S. Navy TBF Avenger aircraft flying overhead as viewed from a landing craft. View from inside a landing craft full of U.S. troops heading toward an amphibious landing. Closeup glimpse of Coxswain in landing craft and troops aboard behind him. Amphibious landings being made under fierce friendly and enemy fire. U.S. troops leaving their landing craft under enemy fire. Marines firing small arms, machine guns, and using hand grenades, in Tarawa, Kiribati. Views of fallen Japanese defenders on Tarawa. Closeup of Marine smoking a cigarette. Another is binding shoulder wound of a buddy. American flag raised on one of the few still standing palm trees. American Marines saluting the flag. Bodies of fallen American marines floating at the shore and on the sands of Tarawa. Marines departing Tarawa. Scene shifts to Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, seated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Cairo, Egypt on 25 November 1943. Leading Allied military leaders sit at a table to hammer out details of postwar plans. American officers present include U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Marshall and Chief of the Army Air Forces, General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040074