Review of air raids in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. United States Army Air Forces Major General Curtis LeMay and General Thomas S. Power discuss the bombing mission on Kobe, Japan with other officers. Colonels Blanchard, Roberts, Warren and Muehleisen read maps and orders.
Baker nuclear test (part of Operations Crossroads) detonates 21-kiloton bomb MK III, “Helen of Bikini”, on Aomoen Island (Bikini Atoll). A clock is seen on the lower right side of the screen. Baker target ships for the explosion (such as the USS Saratoga) are docked on Bikini Atoll. The Baker test detonates 90 feet (27 m) underwater, halfway to the bottom in water 180 feet (55 m) deep. A column of hot gas bubble forms after detonation. Thicker clouds of hot gas falls, covering Bikini Atoll and ships. Lower clouds around the area dissipates.
United States attack transport ships (APA) sailing toward the beach at Kerama Islands (Japan) during World War 2. A group of APA ships sailing on choppy waters in the Pacific Ocean. View of an APA ship.
U.S. troops gathered around a tent, eating, in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in 1942, during WW2. A line of soldiers carrying plates and bowls and cups waits to receive food. A man cooks food on a stove. Soldiers sit on the ground eating and warming by a fire. Wide view of the beach with ships and cranes out on the water. Crates of supplies stacked on the beach, soldiers move about. A soldier stacks an ammunition crate onto a large pile. Dozens of unfinned cylindrical bomb bodies on the shore. A crane, tractor, and bulldozer are unloaded from a boat. Panoramic view of a wide flat area to be built into an airfield, covered in shallow lakes.
Natives talk to a group of U.S. Marines in Okinawa. Native talks with Lieutenant Colonel John C Miller, Junior. Group of Marines listens. Face of native. Face of native with beard. Face of native with beard and mustache. Native civilians talk to Marines. Marine interpreter. Marine interpreter talks to native civilian. Native civilian talks to Marine. (World War 2 period.)
U.S. Navy Patrol Boat Base 21 at Mios Woendi Island in Dutch New Guinea during World War II. An officer in a briefing hut with a map in the background. Other officers enter the hut and take their seats. An intelligence officer at the map as he briefs the officers. The officers take down notes. They look at a map. The intelligence officer points at an island on the mp.
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