U.S. Navy and Marines engaged in live fire amphibious assault exercise. Explosions on beach as Navy and Marine aircraft fly overhead and a wave of landing craft carrying marines approaches. Next, the landing craft arrive at the beach and marines storm ashore and proceed over hills and rough terrain toward their objective. Numerous views of Marines charging over sand berms. Armor and vehicles being driven from landing craft through the surf. An M48 Patton tank comes ashore through the surf and drives toward the camera and then very close past it. tankers in top and forward hatches are seen. As it passes, a pair of wading vents can be seen on its rear deck. Closeup of its treads. Several tracked landing vehicles drive in a line along the edge of the beach. Closeups of some. Marine riflemen charging across the terrain. Fires burning. explosions occuring beside Marines running from their landing craft. Marines charging from parked helicopter as explosions occur nearby.
The United States Army Quartermaster Corps in the United States during World War 2. Supplies for the Quartermaster Corps like boots, dresses, cigarettes and hardware. A tent encampment. A soldier standing in a wooded region. An officer seated at a table in an office. The flag with the Quartermaster Corps insignia flutters from a pole. Point of view shot at nearly eye level with large column of U.S. Army soldiers marching toward camera position, holding rifles as they march in formation. The soldiers eat seated at tables in a dining hall or mess area. The Quartermaster Corps unload boxes of supplies during a war overseas. A number of boxes of supplies on a beach. Several Quartermaster Corps unloading boxes from landing crafts on the beach. View of a pair of boots which is part of the necessary uniform equipment. A large number of cabbages in a heap. Pieces of hardware hung on stands on a wall. The boxes of supplies are stacked in a store before distribution. The corps distributed uniforms. United States Army Soldiers on tanks moving on a path. The soldiers arrive at landing crafts on a beach. Large columns of U.S. Army soldiers march in formation. Women's Army Corps (WAC) and nurses move in formation. Women working in textile webbing factory with large spools of webbing or string during manufacture process. The soldiers march. Ships in a harbor. Supplies at a dock for army and navy requirements.
A training film titled 'The LST Description' about design of Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs) in the United States. U.S. Landing Craft Tanks serve at various places during wartime. Bulldozers, tanks, trucks and several other equipment unloaded from a Landing Ship Tank at a beach. LSTs underway at sea. A diagram of an LST. The LST is long and wide. It has propellers with diesel engines and rudders. The design of the LST is shown. It has several features. It has bow doors and a ramp. An LST underway. The LST is beached and its bow door opens. Tanks and equipment unloaded from the LST. The bow gun, bow anchor and the towing cable of the LST. Elevators, ship's ventilators and fans are shown. The cargo hatch, the navigation bridge and guns on the bridge are shown. The conning tower. Small utility boats aboard the LST. Guns on the stern. An LST on a beach.
A training film titled: 'Amphibious Warfare Landing Boat Tactics Supply' on supply process of equipment from landing boats. The landing boats underway in the United States. The supply phase of amphibious operations. Men unload equipment at a beach. An officer instructs crew. Preparations for landing supplies. A red marker on the beach represents its center. Different strips which are vertical, horizontal and others are used as markers at the beach. A strip represents an ammunition marker. Tracked vehicle marker is the point where the tracked vehicles will be unloaded. The medical supplies marker. A red cross on a white field. A fuel unloading marker.
Aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during World War 2. An animated map shows Japan in the Pacific Ocean. Nagasaki, Kobe and Otaru in Japan. U.S. propaganda scenes with caricature voice of a fictional "Mr. Tojo" of Japan declaring various U.S. Navy ships destroyed after the Pearl Harbor attack. Scenes of various capsized and damaged ships in Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack. United States naval personnel and civilian personnel work on salvage and repair. Engineers and personnel recruited. Navy divers get into scuba diving suits and helmets and go under water to collect salvage and make repairs. Destroyed USS Nevada, USS West Virginia, USS California. Salvage crew work aboard these ships. Refloated and refitted U.S. Navy ships departing Pearl Harbor in the war effort. View of the Aloha Clock Tower. Sailors stand with Lurline ship in background. View of people enjoying Waikiki Beach in 1940 or 1941 before the attack. Later scene of the same beach with two young boys playing in the sand, but barbed wire between the beach and the ocean, following America's entry into World War 2. Empty streets of Honolulu at dusk as blackout time hours begin. Narrator speaks out against Japan and states that all they that take the sword shall perish the sword, and text "This is not the End" appears at the end of the film, following by text, "This is but the Beginning!"
Sikorsky S-36 amphibious aircraft parked at beach in Maine. Crowd surrounds aircraft named "Dawn". Aircraft in flight over Atlantic Ocean after take off from beach. Sikorsky S-36 amphibian aircraft the "Dawn" then seen returning and landing on water back again at Old Orchard after shortened 500 mile flight due to weather. Men on beach direct aircraft. Female pilot Frances Wilson Grayson (niece of President Woodrow Wilson) exits aircraft after bad weather forces the aviatrix to abandon her third attempt to fly to Denmark. Close up view of Frances Grayson. (Grayson was flying together with pilot Wilmer Stultz and navigator Brice Goldsborough.)
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