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Guerillas on the Malabang beach, and an LST (Landing Ship, Tank) moves with troops, during Malabang mission in Philippines.

U.S. Army attack mission over Malabang in Philippines Island. A small landing craft, with men aboard, leaves the Malabang shore. The landing craft beside an LST (Landing Ship, Tank). The landing craft moves away. Guerillas and the soldiers on the shore. The soldiers aboard an LST. Nimber '722' written on the LST. Several LSTs along the shore in vew. An LST with number '680' written on it. The LST moves away from the shore. (World War II period).

Location: Malabang Philippines
Date: 1945, April 17
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054910
U.S. General MacArthur, Admiral Mitscher and the troops on the Leyte beach during Philippines Campaign of World War II.

Philippines Campaign in Philippines during World War II. Smoke rising as the U.S. invasion fleet shells the beach of Leyte in Philippines Island. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Mitscher, with other officers on a landing craft. The troops on several landing crafts. The U.S. battleships in view. The General with the troops on the Leyte beach. The landing crafts on the shore by which the troops arrived. The General and the troops walk among the trees. Battered houses of the villages in view. The troops near a damaged house. Troops on a field.

Location: Leyte Philippines
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054917
Pilot, Eroll Boyd and Navigator Harry Conner, attempt flight from Newfoundland, Canada to Croydon, England

A group of men roll the Bellanca high wing monoplane, "Columbia,"from a hangar at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada. Pilot,Captain Erroll Boyd, and navigator,Harry Connor, stand in front of the airplane, discussing their aeronautical chart. Camera focuses on the airplane's rudder, displaying: "NR 237" A picture of of a woman dressed in the U.S. flag, and the word: "Columbia." vertical stabilizer displays a stylized diamond forming letters: "CAL." With engine running, a well wisher shakes hands with Erroll Boyd through the plane window and then steps back as the "Columbia" taxis ahead. The aircraft begins takeoff on a rough, rocky field. (It didn't succeed and they had to try again with manual help to keep the airplane's tail from digging into the ground.) Scene shifts to the aircraft airborne overhead. (Note: fuel problems forced them to make an emergency landing at Tresco, the Scilly Islands, off Cornwall, England, before finally arriving at Croydon.)

Location: Newfoundland
Date: 1930, October 9
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054975
Sailors relaxing on USS Wasp (CV-18) in the final days of World War II

Sailors relaxing on flight deck of the USS Wasp (CV-18) in final days of World War 2. An F6F behind them with wings folded. Ship's Island displays numerous nautical signal flags. Sailors in bathing suits watching some activity taking place below, on the hangar deck.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055304
Fire fighting aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific after explosion of TBF Avenger on deck

Fire fighting aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Western Pacific Ocean off the coast of Formosa (Taiwan). Sailors direct fire hoses on a burning TBF Avenger and hole in the flight deck. The TBF Avenger had returned from a sortie, landed on the deck, taxied near the island and then exploded. 50 sailors were killed and 75 injured. Corpsmen carry wounded man on stretcher across flight deck. (World War II period).

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945, January 21
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055312
Bodies committed to ocean and Marine rifle salute in mass funeral ceremony aboard USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific Ocean.

Mass funeral aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific Ocean. Bodies committed to ocean in Mass Funeral Ceremony. Multiple crews of six men each carry dead sailors, wrap each in the U.S. flag, place them on a board and tip them into the ocean. Marines fire rifle salute. View of sheet covered bodies on lower deck awaiting burial at sea. The 50 men were killed in a January 21, 1945 accident when a TBF Avenger returned from a sortie in the area of Formosa (Taiwan). It landed on the deck and taxied near the island, and then exploded killing 50 men and injuring 75. (World War II period).

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945, January
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055313
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