Allied invasion of Aguni Jima in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) underway in Pacific Theater. LVT underway towards beach. Landing Craft Infantry aboard LVT. Shoreline of Aguni Jima in view. Loaded Landing Crafts approach beach. LVT lands on beach. Control boat and auxiliary craft on beach. Destroyer ships in view. Landing Craft Infantry advances and disperses on the beach.
A U.S. mine sweep boat operation off the coast of Wonsan in Korea. Men pull a mine along a beach. Underwater Demolition Team members push the mine onto the beach while the beach crew pulls it up onto the beach from the other side. Men pull cable onto a beach. A mine hoisted in a sling being pulled aboard an LSD ( Landing Ship Dock ).
After the battle of Tarawa in Pacific Theater. Battered palm trees and wreckage on the beach in Tarawa. American marines in a Japanese bunker. A group of Japanese prisoners sit on a beach as marines guard them. Marines carry boxes up to the beach. Korean prisoners carry wounded and supplies along a road guarded by American marines. Japanese and Korean prisoners searched and guarded by marines. Wounded Japanese and Korean prisoners lie on the stretchers. Prisoners squat on a beach. Small tractor hauls a captured torpedo on dolly up the beach. (World War II period).
Sherman tanks off-loaded from Landing Ship Tank (LST) on a beach in France. A cargo ship in the background. Stern section of Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) run aground. View of LST on beach. Several LST on beach. A tank drives by in the foreground. Barrage balloons flying overhead can be seen. LST on beach. Tanks and trucks drive by on beach. (World War II period).
Establishment of a beachhead in Normandy, France during D-Day, the Invasion of Normandy. Mix of some dramatic acting portrayals but mostly actual footage. Barrage balloons over a U.S. ship underway at sea. A sailor puts on his helmet on the deck of a ship. The setting sun in the background. A clock shows 12 midnight. Navy officers and soldiers look at the clock anxiously. The clock shows twenty minutes to six in the morning. Explosions as guns are fired from ships. A man talks over a phone. The rising sun. Barges and landing crafts loaded with soldiers in water. Guns are fired at a coast. Smoke comes out of the stacks of a ship. Aircraft in flight to provide air cover. Rockets are fired at the shore. Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel ( LCVPs ) reach the beach and drop their ramps. Soldiers unload from the crafts. Aircraft provide cover. More landing crafts approach. LCIs ( Landing Craft Infantry) loaded with soldiers reach the beach. Troops going ashore on beaches of Normandy under fire from German shore positions. Views from landing crafts in water near shore as troops run up beaches. Landing crafts return to ships. Debris and dead floating in water near beach. A ragged U.S. flag flutters on a U.S. Coast Guard rescue cutter. The Coast Guards take care of the wounded and the dead. A military officer types on a typewriter while smoking a pipe in the United States. Crates of medical supplies for the soldiers. U.S. Medical Field Units reach the shore. Wounded are carried to hospital ships and transports. Wounded are carried on stretchers. Soldiers come down a net on the side of a ship. Soldiers in a barge. Soldiers wade ashore. A wounded man is carried on a stretcher. Men wade ashore. (World War II period).
United States Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Marines on beach as smoke rises in the background. LVTs (Landing Vehicles Tracked) on the beach. Marines take cover as they lie down on the beach. A wounded Marine at an evacuation center on the beach. Marines dig foxholes on the beach. Smoke rises from a fire. A Marine runs up and fires a rifle at a pill box. Marines load shells and fire a 60mm mortar.
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