Amphibious attack by the U.S. forces on an island in the Pacific during World War II. A U.S. battleship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Naval guns firing at Japanese positions. Landing crafts loaded with soldiers approach the island. Aircraft in flight drop bombs. An armored vehicle drives into a beach. U.S. troops wade inland during combat. Marines ducking behind bushes before an explosion takes place on the beach. Dead Japanese soldiers’ bodies lying on the ground. A firing rocket launcher on USMC M-2-4 1-ton cargo truck. Vehicles driven inland. A soldier fires a gun. Soldiers filing out of grass. They carry ammunition. Flames come out of a Flamethrower. The soldiers sit in a trench. Injured soldiers are treated in the jungle. Medics carry a patient on a stretcher. A jeep is driven away. Tanks move in a line. Soldiers on a battlefield.
Operation Shingle in Anzio Italy during World War II (Battle of Anzio). Allied troops unload ammunition and stack it near a wall on a beach. Buildings in the background. A Landing Ship Tank on the beach. Trucks tow artillery off a pontoon dock into the water. The troops on the trucks. The artillery taken ashore.
Film opens with animated map showing places in the Pacific near the island of Palau. A formation of U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers is seen in flight. Glimpse from the air of the Palau archipelago. Aerial view from a B-24 of its bombs exploding on the center of a Japanese airfield below. Aerial view of a U.S. Independence-class Aircraft carrier of Task Force 58. Officers and sailors on carrier island watch as a Grumman F4F Wildcat aircraft takes off .from the aircraft displays geometric marking on its tail, known as a "G-symbol." In this case it is a large white diamond containing the airplane number inside another diamond. (The United States Navy Pacific Fleet, assigned G-Symbols to the CV and CVL class carriers of Task Force 58. These were assigned to each carrier and appeared on all aircraft operating from it. ) A formation of Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft flying above clouds. Closeup of one with diamond G-symbol and number on its tail. Broad view from the air of TBF Avenger aircraft in flight and Navy warships maneuvering in waters below. Sea level views of some warships in the Third Fleet. One is a Portland-class Cruiser. Wide aerial view of ships in the task force. Cruisers and battleships bombarding Palau and nearby targets. Closeup of heavy cruiser USS Louisville (CA 28) firing her port side 5 inch 25 caliber guns and 40 mm A/A guns from the stern.. A TBF Avenger dive bombs a shore target. More views of warships with shells bursting in background. Shells bursting at the shoreline. Closeup glimpse of marines in landing craft U.S. Marine Corps LVT(A)4 Amphibious Tanks heading toward the beach on September 15, 1944. An LCI(L) Landing Craft Infantry (Large) firing close to shore. Shells striking shoreline installations. View from aircraft of landing craft speeding toward the beach and many more maneuvering offshore. Closeup of marines moving about on the shore of Palau with smoke rising and sounds of gunfire. A marine running through foliage at the shore. Marines manning a command post and communications center in the jungle. Marines firing rifles from a tree line. One firing a Browning M1919 machine gun and another throwing a hand grenade. Marines firing rifle grenades. Marines move forward and encounter a dead Japanese soldier lying next to his flame thrower. They reach the edge of the airfield, where two Japanese aircraft are just barely seen. They walk past dead Japanese at a machine gun emplacement. More views of Marines fighting at the edge of the airfield, and entering into the open area of the field, where fires are burning. .Wrecked Japanese aircraft are seen on the field. Marine infantry cross the field behind an M4 Sherman tank. Barges are seen carrying construction cranes and equipment to the island. A tracked crane drives onto the airfield. Bulldozers work on the edge of the airfield. A power shovel fills trucks with coral deposit material for resurfacing the airfield. Trucks dumping their contents at the field. Bulldozers and earth scrapers level the airfield surface. A TBF Avenger aircraft is the first to land on the unpaved airfield.
U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group leaves a beach on Leyte Island in the Philippines during World War II. A camp area after tents have been taken down. The tents after being torn down. The beach in the background. Soldiers in a group. Ashes of burnt scraps. Trailers parked at the camp area. The torn tents at the camp.
U.S. Army 5th Engineering Battalion soldiers on D-Day rescued from a wrecked landing craft during World War II Invasion of France (landings in Normandy France). A wrecked landing craft in heavy surf off Omaha Beach. The U.S. soldiers rescued from water after wreckage of the landing craft. The soldiers are aided to shore by rope line. A rescued soldier being helped by other soldiers. Another group of soldiers aids a rubber raft to shore. The rescued soldiers on the raft. The rescued soldiers carried by other soldiers onto shore. A soldier talks to one of the rescued as the victim lays on the beach trying to recover.
Tugs tow Phoenix units for making an artificial harbor at Normandy beachhead in France during World War II. Phoenix (reinforced concrete caisson) units are towed. Tugs towing Phoenix units. A ship underway. The Phoenix units being towed to a position for sinking. Ships underway. Gun crew at stations on Phoenix units. Barrage balloons flying in the background. Landing Ship Tanks approach a beach. An LST approaches the beach. Other ships in the background.
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