U.S. Navy forces in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. Navy TBM aircraft taxiing over the flight deck during sunset. U.S. Navy F4U Corsair take off from the deck. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat aircraft take off from the aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier underway. U.S. Navy SB2C Helldiver in formation flight overhead. The aircraft in flight over rough terrain. Bombs hits marked on the terrain. Landing crafts circling off to the starboard side. Landing crafts head into beach on invasion.
Smoke rises from an oil dump. Trees in the foreground. An ambulance moves past the oil dump. Numerous palm trees. Columns of smoke rise up from burning oil. Mutilated bodies lying on the ground.
A U.S. Navy Task Force underway in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Saipan, Mariana Islands during the Battle of Saipan of World War 2. Closeup of triple gun turrets turned to port on a U.S. warship in the task force. Shells striking at shoreline of the island in distance. View of warship in the distance firing its naval guns to port. A Flush deck destroyer escort firing to port, from close to the island. Sailors in position with a twin Bofors 40mm gun. At TC:00:37 mark is the USS Indianapolis CA 35 heavy cruiser.Landing craft approaching the shore, where smoke is rising. A huge explosion in the water near the shore. Shell bursts in the water short of the island. Landing craft underway.
Dramatization shows how one defective walkie-talkie can impair battle plans, United States. Troops battle on a Pacific Island in World War II. Soldiers move into action and fire artillery. Task Force team in manned radio operations room. Soldier talks on radio device from the island to headquarters. Soldiers move into building for counter attacks. Soldiers try to make contacts with headquarters. They fail to make contact as defective radio fails. Soldiers kneeling on island. Explosions and smoke rise. Shows Under-Sec. of War, Robert Porter Patterson; Chief of Services and supplies, Brehon Burke Somervell and Chief of signal officer, Olmstead in their offices. Walkie-talkies are rush-ordered for the invasion. Radios are being made in factory. American workers work on assembling of walkie-talkie instruments. A careless worker produces a defective set. Walkie-talkies are sold.
U.S. 1st Marine Division operations on Peleliu, during World War 2. U.S. F4U Corsair aircraft, flying low and slow, with gear down, drop napalm incendiary bombs on Japanese troops dug in on a ridge. Huge explosions seen. A C-47 transport airplane taxis on airfield. F4U Corsairs are seen parked and tents are pitched nearby.Several C-47s are parked on a ramp. Three F4Us taxi past them headed to the runway. F4Us take off and one is seen bombing Japanese positions on the ridge. Slate notes 1st Marine Division and D+24. Major General William Henry Rupertus,kneels on one knee, in sand, as another officer (shirtless) briefs him. They briefly discuss tactics and then walk away. Marine rifleman firing into burning wreckage of a Japanese position. Marine firing grenade from his rifle. Two Marines stand on beach with LVT (landing vehicle tracked) on the sand, nearby. They point at large ship offshore. Views of the Peleliu beachhead, with numerous ships and landing craft beached, including the second USS Seaward (LST 278) that collided with LST-129 and suffered considerable damage, On October 2, 1944. (LST-129 may be the LST seen next to LST-278.)
A DUKW speeds toward the USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7) in World War 2. It is seen tied up alongside with several wounded Marines aboard. Crewmen and Marines carry the wounded aboard the McKinley on litters (stretchers).
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