United States Marines advance during invasion of an island in the Pacific during World War II. U.S. Navy sailors, enlisted men and officers in ranks stand in files during a drill aboard a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnels (LCVP). Burial of a crew member at the sea. Colors flying from the yardarm down at the halyards. A sailor in the gun tub at dusk.
United States Marines advance during the invasion of an island in the Pacific during World War II. A convoy of battleships sail in the sea. A Landing Ship Mechanized (LCM) moves alongside a Landing Ship Tank (LST). U.S. soldiers in full gear aboard the LST. A soldier in the gun tub of the LST keeps a watch on the sea. A U.S. Navy destroyer and other small boats near it in the sea.
United States Navy offloads material and equipment on a beach during invasion of an island in the Pacific during World War II. A Landing Ship Tank (LST) loaded with supplies and soldiers at the beach. Soldiers, army trucks and jeeps with chained wheels on the deck of LST. Trucks and jeeps drive out of LST on the beach. Several LCVPs ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnels) tied together at the beach. Another LST loaded with jeeps and army trucks on its deck. Smoke arises from an explosion on a distant beach.
Life of U.S. soldiers in various theaters, operating under very difficult conditions during World War II. Soldiers take positions in dense woods and fire rifles during a combat operation. They run and advance in a battlefield. African American U.S. army soldiers load and fire an artillery piece. A planes crashes, but pilot's parachute is seen safely descending. B-26 hit by flak, bursts into flame, part of engine falls away and aircraft spirals out of control on fire. Aircraft shot out of sky by fighter from behind. Glider aircraft noses forward during landing and flips up in the air. Gun camera footage from a U.S. aircraft firing at another aircraft on the ground. The target aircraft explodes and the flying aircraft flys through the smoke and flame directly above it. Soldiers fire at the enemy during what appears to be a battle in the pacific region. Machine gunner directs fire at enemy, and repeatedly hits a corpse lying just in front of the gun emplacement. Marines fire on Japanese positions on a Pacific island. Ruined villages and burning huts are seen, with U.S. tanks passing by. Marines direct flamethrowers into wrecked buildings and fortifications. Close view of machine gun barrel from side, firing rounds. Soldiers during a combat battle in dense woods of varying terrain. Soldiers advancing during battle. Marines direct flamethrowers at targets ahead.
From "He Has Seen War", scenes of badly disfigured dead bodies of Japanese and American soldiers killed on islands in the Pacific, during World War 2. Corpses of U.S. Marines on a beach. Soldiers dig out dead bodies from mud. Body of U.S. soldier, in mud, being fingerprinted for identification. American dead lying in a field, each with a white covering. Bodies kept under a white cover on a ship. A cemetery of dead soldiers. American dead, each draped in an American flag, being buried at sea. Exhausted and wounded soldiers walk out of a Landing Craft Vehicle. Group of tired U.S. Army soldiers look at camera with blank, exhausted, saddened faces. Sad and depressed war struck civilians. U.S. soldier lifts body of little girl from under rubble and debris. U.S. Army soldier seated beside a grieving civilian family. A dead boy lies between them. They sadly cover his body. Wounded U.S. soldier on stretcher cries out in pain. Soldiers walking in long lines to or from battle. Faces of war-hardened U.S. Soldiers and Marines. Narrator describes the nature of what these soldiers have seen and that they will be changed by their experiences.
Cooperation between New Zealand and the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps during World War II. A tractor on a farm in New Zealand. A tractor plows the field. The Pukekohe Golf Club, near Wellington, converted from golf to farm to grow crops for the war effort. New Zealand farmers works in the field. Farmers load a truck with sacks of potatoes. Close up view of potatoes on a sorting belt and farmers sort potatoes and bag them. Women workers sort cabbage and package the cabbage for shipment. Men and women farmers picking fruits and vegetables in farm fields. A factory shows apples being moved on a belt driven machine, and peeled and cored by a machine, cut into very small pieces and dehydrated in order to conserve shipping space. Canning operations are shown as the dehydrated fruits and vegetables are packed in moisture proof tins in packing houses. Meat and vegetable are mixed in proportions to prepare Quartermaster combat rations. Combat ration cans being filled and sealed at a factory plant. A machine re-generating chocolate bars from old chocolate by melting them down and reprocessing them. Soldiers unloading cartoons from the truck. Rations from New Zealand are loading on to ships by cranes with nets at large shipyards, with ships bound for the Solomon Islands. A dairy warehouse of the New Zealand Co-op Dairy Company (later Tatua) is seen at an airport near Auckland (Possibly Tatuanui or Pauanui). Milk is loaded into a specifically converted B-24 aircraft at the airport. Soldiers loading the aircraft with milk containers. The B-24 aircraft takes off. The aircraft arrives at the Tontouta Air Base in New Caledonia. A nurse serves milk to a wounded soldier patient in a hospital. Sign over the patient's bed says "Pappy Shooter, 27th Division; Saipan; Oahu, Hawaii". The patient drinks milk. Bread being made in Quartermaster bakery. A group of Army bakers working together to form loaves of bread dough on a large work surface. Workers making bread. A worker opens an oven revealing many loaves of baked bread. Ice slabs being formed at an ice plant, and soldiers picking up ice blocks for use in preserving meats and other foods, and in making ice cream. A soldier making ice cream using an ice cream churn in the field. View of a larger Quartermaster ice cream plant that was setup at a large base.
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