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81st Infantry Division troops embark for Peleliu Island while others clear brush for landing strip during Battle of Angaur (WW2)

United States 321st Regiment, 81st Infantry Division board LSTs for Peleliu Island during the Battle of Angaur in World War II. A ship leaves the port while soldiers wait for another ship. Infantry troops clear the jungle while searching for Japanese snipers on Angaur Island. A soldier hacks away tree branches. 81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” troops clear away leaves, branches, and vegetation. Bulldozers clearing bushes, debris, and soil. A road roller with spikes flattens ground. A soldier spins the propeller of a Piper L-4 Grasshopper scout plane to start it. The plane taxiing and taking off from the newly built airfield.

Location: Angaur Palau Islands
Date: 1944, September
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080166
United States Army 7th Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers over Rock Islands, Koror, Palau (WW2)

Aerial view of Rock Islands in Koror, Palau during a United States bombing mission in World War II. An inhabited island with a port and some roads. A squadron of United States Army 7th Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft flying over Koror.

Location: Koror Palau Islands
Date: 1945, April 30
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080431
Chinese laborers mine iron ore in Japanese-occupied Hainan Island (WW2)

Coconut trees on Japanese-occupied Hainan Island during the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). Native Chinese laborers work on railway tracks and in Tandoku Iron Mine, near Sanya, Hainan Island. Chinese laborers digging for iron ore in open pit mining. The laborers scoop iron ore and load into rail cars. A group of laborers push the rail wagons filled with iron ore into pit. A Japanese man supervises the miners. A laborer fills wagon with iron ore while another pushes a cart away. The wagons filled with iron ore move on railway track.

Location: Hainan Island China
Date: 1941, June
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675080581
U.S. Navy pilots return after bombing Marcus Island and report to the combat intelligence officer aboard USS Yorktown.

USS Yorktown (CV-10) in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Navy fighters, bombers and escorts return after bombing Marcus Island. including the SBD Dauntless, TBF Avenger, F6F Hellcat, A-25 Shrike, SB2C and SBF Helldiver land on the carrier. An officer supervises the deck activities. Crewmen signal and guide the planes. An aircraft lands with a ruptured tire. Landing officer warns the crew to keep away on the stern. The pilots go below to report to the combat intelligence officer. The officer and a crewman seated at a table with documents and photographs. The pilots provide statistics regarding bombs dropped, ammunition fired, and targets. They report on shore installations, radio stations, gas dumps, hangars and ammunition dumps set on fire due to their bombardment. Smokey, the radio plotting room in charge, tracks the remaining aircraft over the radio. Crewmen signal on the flight deck as a plane crash lands. Officers and pilots in a meeting.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943, August 30
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021558
Burning American oil supply dump at Puruata Island in Bougainville.

Shows a burning American oil supply dump destroyed in a Japanese air raid at Puruata Island in Empress Augusta Bay,Bougainville. American troops of the 37th Division put off the fire using water hoses. A bombed 90mm American gun position. (World War II period).

Location: Purata Bougainville Papua New Guinea
Date: 1943, November 20
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029164
New Guinea natives carry supplies for the Allies and the Allies bombard a Japanese held island in the South Pacific.

War between the Allied Forces and the Axis troops in the South Pacific during World War II. New Guinea Papuan natives carry arms, ammunition and supplies for the Allies in a boat. An overnight camp of the Papuan people. The natives carry the supplies across mountains and makeshift bridges. The Australians inspect a Japanese submarine in Sydney Harbor, Australia. They remove the firing mechanism of the torpedo and the instrument which helps a torpedo to find its way once fired from a submarine. U.S. and Australian naval forces move towards a Japanese held island and bombard it. The sailors load and fire artillery. Smoke rises in distance as the shells hit the targets. U.S. Marines survey the damage. Dead Japanese soldiers. A lone U.S. Marine with captured Japanese prisoners.

Location: New Guinea
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033548
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