The capture of Green Islands in the Solomons by U.S. troops during World War II. Tactical maneuver of bypassing some Japanese held islands and advancing to more strategic positions is explained. U.S. ships and a landing craft underway. Barrage balloons in flight overhead. A man aboard a ship looks through binoculars. Soldiers aboard a landing craft underway. Japanese aircraft flying in formation overhead. Soldiers firing anti aircraft guns from the ships and landing craft towards the aircraft. Smoke rises as the airplanes explode. The remaining Japanese airplanes withdraw. Enemy held positions are being fired at. Smoke rises in the foreground. A landing craft arrives at a shore. Soldiers aboard trucks come out of the landing craft and advance on the island. A man watching in the foreground through a camera mounted on a tripod. Aircraft flying in formation overhead. The soldiers clear an area for the construction of a runway with the help of a bulldozer. They lay dynamite in the area as they are not able to clear the area completely with the bulldozer.
British Royal Marines land in Holland during World War II. The Marines in landing crafts en route to Walcheren Island. Men and equipment aboard the landing crafts. A convoy of the landing crafts. British Marines cleaning rifles and loading cartridge clips. Rockets are fired from a ship. Hits on the island. An airplane drop bombs on the island. Smoke rises from explosions. Enemy artillery hits near a landing craft. A shell explodes near a landing craft. Men climb into Landing vehicles Tracked (LVTs). Troops coming ashore.
United States soldiers perform a dry run of the Angaur landing in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Animated map shows the Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, New Guinea and Palau Islands. An anchor being dropped from ship. Landing craft sailing to the coast during a dry run of Angaur landing in Guadalcanal. United States 81st ("Wildcat") Infantry Division troops on LVT-4 and LVT(A)-2 Water Buffalo (Landing Vehicles, Tracked) drive onto beach. Soldiers rush to the beach after the Higgins boat door opens. Troops landing on Guadalcanal beach. Soldiers advance through jungle. Soldiers firing with M 1917 machine guns and bazookas. Soldier wearing flame thrower tanks on his back. A soldier digging in. Soldier aiming his rifle. Ships sailing after dry run exercise in Guadalcanal. Soldiers leaning over side of ship watch the ship wake.
U.S. 81st Infantry Division troops of Regimental Combat Team 321 (321st Infantry Regiment) advancing cautiously in the Palau Islands during World War 2. They are supported by armor of the 710th Tank Battalion,including personnel carriers and M4 tanks. Views from an M4 tank firing at Japanese positions in hills across a valley. Smoke rising from shell strikes.
Views of total harbor area destruction from battles between U.S. and Japanese forces in Palau Islands during World War 2. Skeleton framework of buildings and destroyed boats and installations. Several Marines walk toward a landing boat being overturned and moved from beachfront.
Native men, women and children make their way through U.S. Marine bivouac area of tents, on Bliliou, Palau Islands, following the end of the battle of Peleliu. They walk on a wet dirt road.
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