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Douglas C-47 Skytrains drop parachutes and parachutes in descent over Corregidor in the Philippine Islands.
U.S. Airborne 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment paratroopers land for the invasion of Corregidor in the Philippine Islands during World War II. Paratroopers land on Corregidor island. United States Army Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrains in flight over the island. Ships underway at sea. Parachutes in descent. The C-47s drop the parachutes. Aerial views of barracks and smoke on the island
American forces capture a Japanese airbase on the Mariana Islands.
The joint force assault by the American Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force against the Japanese on the island of Saipan, Guam and Tinian in the Marianas Islands. U.S. mortar crew fires at the Japanese. Tanks and infantrymen advance ahead. American troops fire mortar guns, artillery guns and machine guns. Troops advance toward a Japanese airbase. The airbase is captured. Many of the Japanese planes are captured. U.S. forces advance north towards another Japanese airbase. Tanks and mortar guns are fired at enemy positions. View of destroyed Japanese tanks and dead Japanese soldiers. U.S. Naval fleet shelling Japanese installations on the island. A Japanese ammunition dump explodes. Massive cloud of the explosion rises in the air. (World War II period).
U.S. Naval bombardment of Mariana Islands during World War II
Bombardment of Tinian, Saipan and Guam in the Mariana Islands by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Sailors on the destroyer ship USS Braine, DD-630, as viewed from the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40, following transfer of several wounded from the destroyer to the battleship, during World War 2. A U.S. Northampton Class heavy cruiser bombarding Japanese positions in Mariana Islands. Smoke rising from shell strikes. Officer aboard the USS New Mexico observing action through binoculars. A sailor scanning horizon with binoculars. Triple gun turrets of the New Mexico trained to port. She being firing guns singly. Signal flags being raised above the New Mexico. Officers scanning horizon with binoculars. A couple of crew members taking a snooze break on deck. Various views of smoke rising in distance, from naval shelling. Two U.S. Navy observation float planes fly overhead. A formation of nine U.S. carrier-based aircraft fly toward the island. More views of explosions ashore. Two light cruisers firing close to shore.
U.S. 1st Marine Division invades the Palau Islands during World War II.
Film opens with animated map showing places in the Pacific near the island of Palau. A formation of U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers is seen in flight. Glimpse from the air of the Palau archipelago. Aerial view from a B-24 of its bombs exploding on the center of a Japanese airfield below. Aerial view of a U.S. Independence-class Aircraft carrier of Task Force 58. Officers and sailors on carrier island watch as a Grumman F4F Wildcat aircraft takes off .from the aircraft displays geometric marking on its tail, known as a "G-symbol." In this case it is a large white diamond containing the airplane number inside another diamond. (The United States Navy Pacific Fleet, assigned G-Symbols to the CV and CVL class carriers of Task Force 58. These were assigned to each carrier and appeared on all aircraft operating from it. ) A formation of Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft flying above clouds. Closeup of one with diamond G-symbol and number on its tail. Broad view from the air of TBF Avenger aircraft in flight and Navy warships maneuvering in waters below. Sea level views of some warships in the Third Fleet. One is a Portland-class Cruiser. Wide aerial view of ships in the task force. Cruisers and battleships bombarding Palau and nearby targets. Closeup of heavy cruiser USS Louisville (CA 28) firing her port side 5 inch 25 caliber guns and 40 mm A/A guns from the stern.. A TBF Avenger dive bombs a shore target. More views of warships with shells bursting in background. Shells bursting at the shoreline. Closeup glimpse of marines in landing craft U.S. Marine Corps LVT(A)4 Amphibious Tanks heading toward the beach on September 15, 1944. An LCI(L) Landing Craft Infantry (Large) firing close to shore. Shells striking shoreline installations. View from aircraft of landing craft speeding toward the beach and many more maneuvering offshore. Closeup of marines moving about on the shore of Palau with smoke rising and sounds of gunfire. A marine running through foliage at the shore. Marines manning a command post and communications center in the jungle. Marines firing rifles from a tree line. One firing a Browning M1919 machine gun and another throwing a hand grenade. Marines firing rifle grenades. Marines move forward and encounter a dead Japanese soldier lying next to his flame thrower. They reach the edge of the airfield, where two Japanese aircraft are just barely seen. They walk past dead Japanese at a machine gun emplacement. More views of Marines fighting at the edge of the airfield, and entering into the open area of the field, where fires are burning. .Wrecked Japanese aircraft are seen on the field. Marine infantry cross the field behind an M4 Sherman tank. Barges are seen carrying construction cranes and equipment to the island. A tracked crane drives onto the airfield. Bulldozers work on the edge of the airfield. A power shovel fills trucks with coral deposit material for resurfacing the airfield. Trucks dumping their contents at the field. Bulldozers and earth scrapers level the airfield surface. A TBF Avenger aircraft is the first to land on the unpaved airfield.
Charles Whitlock and his colleague conduct the first global surface radiation budget experiment on Bermuda Island.
Global climate study conducted by the NASA Langley Research Center in Virgina, United States scientists on the Bermuda Island. Aerial view of the Bermuda Island.Charles Whitlock and his colleague from NASA Langley research Center in Virgina on the Island. They walk towards the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Tracking station. They are conducting the first global surface radiation budget experiment. Animation depicts a satellite revolving to give information about the climate. The Clouds over a dome of the building. Whitlock speaks about the satellite soundings that helps them to give information. The dome opens. A scientist seated inside a Laser control room. Beam comes out from a roof. The colleague takes out important measurements. Whitman talks about the important data that can be collected through the satellite. The colleague cleans a camera on a platform. A monitor showing images. The colleague notes down the information. An instrument on a roof. Sunlight on water. Whitlock prepares a balloon. He attaches an instrument on the balloon. The balloon is launched. The balloon flies away. Whitlock talks about the way balloon will help them. A view of the observatory at sunrise. Sunlight on water.
Headquarters of the Bermuda Base Command of 1389th Air Force Base Unit, Atlantic Division on the Bermuda Islands.
A film 'Safe On Base' depicts an American military base on the Bermuda Islands. A map of the Bermuda Islands on a table. The wing of a U.S. airplane. Aerial views of the Bermuda Islands. A sign: 'Headquarters, Bermuda Base Command, 1389th Air Force Base Unit, Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command'. A jeep driven on a road. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) SB-17G Flying Fortress aircraft on a ramp.
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