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U.S. Marines pushing forward after amphibious landing on Eniwetok Atoll during World War II in the pacific.

U.S. Marines are hunkered down in sand on Eniwetok, as a shell fired by a nearby tank bursts. They then get up and follow the tank forward. Camera focuses on several Landing Vehicles, Tracked (LVT) AKA amphtracks moving across desolate landscape of broken trees and debris. Marine infantry moving across the area past an overturned vehicle and searching for remaining Japanese defenders. Two marines fire their rifles into a heap of debris. Four marines carry a wounded comrade on a litter. Others administer blood plasma to a wounded marine lying on the ground. An M3 Stuart light tank moving slowly with some marine infantry behind it. Slate is interjected reading: "Snipers are blasted from their holes." Marines are seen poking rifles into hiding places and preparing grenades for use. Grenade charges exploding.

Location: Eniwetok Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1944, February
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041091
American comedian Bob Hope and troupe arrives at the Mullinex field

American comedian Bob Hope arrives at the Bonriki airfield, also known as Mullinex field, during World War 2. A PBY-5A Catalina lands and taxis. Bob Hope and his USO entertainment troupe exit the plane. They are greeted by officers and men. The troupe enters jeeps. PBY-5A Catalina warms up. Stage and Navy sailor and soldier spectators for the Bob Hope show. Bob Hope and troupe in plane.

Location: Bonriki Island Pacific Theater
Date: 1944, July 29
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041126
Operation Crossroads: Aerial view of "Able" nuclear weapon test

Aerial view of shot Able, the first test of the United States Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons tests in the Bikini Atoll. Bright flash followed by rising mushroom cloud after bomb explodes. Blast wave seen overtaking unmanned test ships in the ocean.

Location: Bikini Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046791
Sailors of USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) visit a restaurant, a market and a beach in Saint Thomas, United States.

Sailors of USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) on liberty in Saint Thomas, United States. The crew walks down the gangway from USS Valley Forge. The sailors at the restaurant of Bluebeards Castle Hotel. The crew takes sunbath at Morning Star Beach. They walk down a street. The sailors and the natives buy fish.

Location: Saint Thomas Virgin Islands
Date: 1956, February 22
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047027
Aftermath of Japanese last desperate "banzai" attack against American forces on Saipan in World War II

Opening scene shows an M8A1 75mm Howitzer motor carriage (variant of M8, using M5A1 Stuart tank chassis). It moves slowly toward the camera along a dirt road on Saipan during World War 2. Closeup shows short gun barrel and driver in turret above, speaking on radio. Bodies of many Japanese soldiers are seen, recently killed in final attacks culminating in their organized suicide assault (AKA "the Tanapag Plain banzai attack") on July 6th and 7th, 1944. A marine throws a hand grenade at a clump of foliage. (Note: Principal American defenders included units of the 105th Infantry, that bore the brunt of the assault, together with 165th Infantry; 23rd Marines; 24th Marines; 25th Marines; 20th Marine,Engineers; and 10th Marines, plus supporting artillery units.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July 8
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050867
U.S. forces searching Saipan for holdout Japanese defenders in World War II

Camera follows American troops as they comb through hiding places at the end of the battle for Saipan in World War 2. Small children hiding among some boulders. Next a Japanese woman and four small children are seen seated on the ground. A U.S. soldier bandages the arm of one child. A group of American soldiers searches for Japanese soldiers near a cave. Two soldiers seen firing at a suspected Japanese enemy position. Next, they search the underbrush and retrieve a box of canned goods next to the body of a dead Japanese soldier. A dead Japanese soldier floating in a stream. U.S. infantrymen continuing their search for Japanese holdouts. One retrieves an abandoned Japanese rifle. Another holds a Japanese grenade. One GI displays a Japanese long Arisaka Type 38 rifle with a Type 30 bayonet. (The rifle is 4 feet, 2 inches long and the bayonet 20 inches, making it almost 5-feet in overall length.) Camera pans across misty landscape near the shore, with so-called "suicide cliff" in background. A woman and small girl sitting beneath a rough shelter.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050872
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