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United States B-25 bomber and crew at Alexai point Landing Field, Attu Island, Alaska

Shown is tail section of a U.S. B-25 medium bomber, tail number 43-36154, assigned to the 11th Air Force, 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium). Twin tails and tail gunner position and guns visible. Snowy slopes seen in background. In the first scene that shows members of the flight crew standing in front of number two engine, they are believed to be: starting back left (moving to the right behind the propeller): Armorer/Tail gunner: Samuel Ward Craig (Shelocta, PA), Pilot: Willard L. Castledine (Three Rivers, MA), Radioman/Waist Gunner: Hugh W. Wilson (Paducah, KY), (coming around to the front of the propeller on the right moving left), Navigator/Bombardier: Kemmer W. Schricker (Davenport, IA), Co-Pilot: Kenneth H. Wait (Rickreal, OR), Engineer/Turret Gunner: Roman F. Ales (Luling, TX) The crew members pull engine #2 through, with the propeller, to assure against hydraulic lock, before starting. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058438
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston and party at a fur seal farm on St Paul Island, Arctic.

Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston visits the Arctic region to study Arctic fisheries and fur seals. A group of men throws fur seal pelts into a room. A man sprays water through a pipe. They wash the fur seal pelts. People walk in and out of a building. Claude Huston and other officials stand in front of a building.

Date: 1922
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064368
General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Admiral Mitscher and Admiral Richmond K Turner plan an invasion of Okinawa.

Invasion of Okinawa. U.S. Army and Navy headquarters in Guam, Pacific Ocean. Army and Navy officers walk along path in exteriors of building. Officer arrives to his flagship at fleet's starting point. U.S. convoy underway at sea. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Admiral Mitscher and Admiral Richmond K Turner in conference examine map. Map shows Kerama Islands near Okinawa. U.S. convoy underway and naval bombardment. Landing crafts advance toward island in Kerama group. Amphibious landings on islands in the Kerama group by 77th Division and the 305th Regimental Combat Team. Troops advance and fight enemy. Dead Japanese soldiers. U.S. soldiers question Japanese prisoners and natives. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052926
2nd and 4th Marine Divisions and 27th Infantry Division head towards Tanapag Harbor and fire at enemy positions on Saipan.

U.S. forces battle against the Japanese on Saipan island, Mariana Islands during World War II. Animated map shows territories occupied by U.S. forces. The map shows the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions along with the 27th Infantry Division heading towards Tanapag Harbor. United States tanks fire at Japanese positions resulting in fire and explosions. 27th Infantry Division troops reach a beach and fire rifles. American aircraft air raid Saipan. A map shows air strikes on northern Saipan and Tinian Island. Marines advance uphill.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064893
U.S. Naval aircraft and warships bombard Saipan during World War II

Views from a Tennesee Class Battleship during bombardment of Saipan in the Mariana Islands during World War 2. The island being bombed by U.S. aircraft. A Broooklyn Class Light Cruiser passes. A Fletcher Class destroyer seen. It passes astern the Battleship. The stern aircraft hoist of the Battleship is visible. View of Battleship's triple 14"/45 caliber guns being turned. Explosions on the island.

Date: 1944, June 14
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067413
United States soldier finds and destroys a Japanese Shinyo suicide motorboat (WW2)

A Japanese suicide boat near the Kerama Islands (32 kilometers south-west of Okinawa Island), Japan during World War 2. A coast in the Kerama Islands. A Shinyo-class suicide motorboat is found covered with foliage as camouflage. A United States soldier throws a phosphorus grenade into the suicide boat. Suicide boat in flames. Scattered remains of a suicide boat after its destruction. Motor parts are scattered in the jungle. A soldier inspects remains of suicide boat.

Date: 1945, April 5
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079536