A training film on operations of U.S. forces on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II. Animation shows landing of combat team 24 on beaches Green I and Green II of Camouflage Island. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment. Landing craft and boats underway at sea. Troops wade ashore. Wrecked equipment and rubbled houses in the area. Soldiers fire rifles and other guns. They advance on a beach. A tank parked on the beach. Soldiers stand nearby and fire. The tank advances. Soldiers advance under heavy firing. Animation depicts the area occupied by the troops. Aircraft in flight overhead. Formation of a mushroom cloud due to heavy smoke.
United States Marines in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Supplies and equipment being unloaded on a beach with trucks and DUKWs (amphibious trucks) arouind. Six LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks) lined up off shore and a large fleet in the background. LCVPs (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) beached along water's edge. A crane lifts water drums into a truck. Men guide the drums down. Men roll water drums out of LCV (Landing Craft, Vehicle). Marines load ctrates onto a truck on the beach.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's companion Eva Braun with her mother and sister in Italy. A view of a beach in Paraggi bay, near Portofino, Italy. Panning view of hills, beach, and villas. Eva Braun's mother, Franziska "Fanny" (Kronberger) Braun, and her youngest daughter,Margarete (Gretl), sit on the beach, knitting. Another person sits closer to the water, knitting. Eva Braun runs into the water, ankle deep and walks back. Camera focuses on a sponge floating at edge of water, near Eva's feet and then of her shadow as she bends near the water. Eva and her mother wade in the water. A man dives in next to them, splashing Eva. She cavorts in the water, approaches the camera, and then is seen doing a backbend on the sand, as the water comes up and wets her hair. Eva and her mother stand on a rock and dive into the water. They swim toward the camera, which is filming them from a canoe.
Whole invasion fleet of the United States Navy in Operation Iceberg, or more famously known as the Battle of Okinawa, during World War 2. Invasion fleet includes amphibious ships such as patrol craft coastals, submarine chasers, battleships, LST (or Tank Landing ships), LCI (Landing Craft Infantry), Landing Ship Medium (LSM), and landing craft such as the LCVP (landing craft vehicle personnel boat or also known as the Higgins boat). A Tank Landing ship sails towards Okinawa, showing military equipment and with sectional pontoons attached to its side. Landed amphibious LVT tanks and Higgins boats on the Green Beach in Okinawa’s coast. Invasion fleet in Green Beach in Okinawa during Battle of Okinawa. Okinawa Island in smoke from Battle of Okinawa off green beach.
Allied soldiers fighting in battle during the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in World War 2. A house is on fire, with explosion. An artillery piece on the beach. United States soldiers wearing leaf camouflage helmets, march on the beach. A ship on fire in background as allied ground forces unload supplies from ships, barrage balloons floating in the sky above them. British soldiers unload from a landing craft on beach. Soldiers, with backpacks and carrying rifles, explore ruins and devastated town, crouching and sometimes ducking as they progress. A U.S. Army tank (M4A2 Sherman III Duplex Drive “Donald Duck” tank) reverses next to railroad tracks while soldiers take cover next to wall. British troops following Sherman tank as it surges forward. Soldiers kneeling in village. French woman shakes hands with Allied soldiers as they enter a town along railroad line with tanks.
Landing of the Free French 2nd Armored Division in Utah Beach, Normandy during World War 2. Armored vehicles rolling on Utah Beach. French soldiers on top of an M3 half-track with an attached cart. An M5 half-track moves across the beach followed by a Willys MB military jeep. Various tanks such as the M4 Sherman tanks and M5 light tanks operated by the 10th Alpine Chasseurs (chasseurs alpins) of the French Army come out of a Landing Ship, Tank (LST).
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