United States Marines of 5th Marine Regiment undergo landing practice in Russell Islands, Solomon Islands, in Pacific Theater, during World War II. Group of Marines head towards beach in amphibious vehicles. Number of amphibious vehicles head towards beach. Marine plots on a map. They listen to messages over a phone.
Brazilians in a boat in Brazil. A group of Brazilian people in a boat. Men get off the boat at a beach. View of a hillside and a forest area on the beach. Sailboats ashore. (Other clips on this same reel show verified scenes of the Fordlandia rubber plantation built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil. This clip likely shows scenes of the Finlandia rubber tree plantings. Data accompanying this reel of film gives a date of 1940, but this may be from circa 1934 near the time that Fordlandia operations stopped and Belterra operations began).
Broad view of Allied beachhead, at Omaha Beach, in Normandy, France, during the invasion in World War 2. Numerous supply vessels, offshore, are making use of Mulberry A artificial harbor created from Phoenix caissons and sunken Gooseberry blockships. Vehicles driving ashore from a landing craft. A Coast Guard Officer looks from shore, through binoculars. In a later sequence, stormy seas are seen pounding Mulberry A Harbor. A sailor moves hand-over-hand, above a sunken section, by means of a line, to LCI(L) 492. After the storm, damaged ships are seen. An 83 ft. Coast Guard Cutter (rescue boat) number 20, is beached,along with landing craft , barges, and other vessels.
U.S. aircraft in flight over the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The U.S. Navy F-6F Hellcat aircraft in formation flight. U.S. flag flutters atop a flag pole in the foreground. U.S. Navy TBM Avengers in flight. Rockets fired by the aircraft. The rockets striking the ground. A small ship strafed near the shoreline. Japanese fighters on the ground. Several landing craft circle a transport. A wave of landing craft approach the beach. Landing craft head on to the beach.
The Normandy Landings on D-Day in France during World War II. A U.S. Navy LST (Landing Ship, Tank) with Allied troops at Normandy coast during the invasion of Normandy. Army trucks coming down the ramp of the LST and moving to the beach. Allied soldiers and officers standing beside the LST. Several ships along the coast in the background. An M4 Sherman tank coming down the ramp of the LST. Several M4 Sherman tanks moving on the beach from the LST.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Ships off the coast of Sicily. An LST (Landing ship Tank) burns due to enemy bombing. Smoke envelopes it completely. Wrecked landing crafts at a beach. Vehicles move on the beach in the foreground. Wrecked German railroad guns. The area around Licata harbor. Allied soldiers march ahead into a town.
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