U.S. Army troops from elements of the 27th Infantry Division, clamber down a rope net over the side of the Attack Cargo Ship, USS Alcyone (AKA-7) and board her landing craft for an amphibious assault on Makin Island, during World War 2 in the Pacific. Views of Higgins Boats (landing craft) underway, some from the USS Leonard Wood (APA-12). Explosions on the shore from Naval bombardment. View from inside a packed landing craft approaching the shore. Gunfire from U.S. Naval warships offshore. Various views of the landing craft underway. An aircraft flying close over the water in the background. A wounded person being hoisted aboard one of the transport ships. Heavy black smoke rising from Naval gunfire striking the shore. A line of landing craft. View from front of a landing craft about to hit the beach. U.S. troops wading ashore.
The U.S. soldiers in Italy during World War II. Soldiers board DUKW amphibious trucks and leave the beach. The trucks enter the river. A jeep is lifted by a crane and lowered into the DUKW. The DUKW with soldiers and jeep en route to the north side of the Po River. The truck underway in the river.
A massive blockhouse in Holland built by Nazi German occupation forces is blasted. A demolition crew standing near the World War 2 blockhouse located on a beach. They lay explosives near the blockhouse. Men push a detonation handle and the building explodes.
German soldiers in Normandy, France during World War II. A soldier is looking through binoculars. A German anti-aircraft crew fires a heavy gun. German batteries fire at dusk. German soldiers point skyward. A huge explosion near a house on a beach. Two Allied airplanes fall to the earth. Heavy German guns aim towards the sky and fire. Columns of smoke rise from the fire.
A training film on operations of U.S. forces on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II. Animation depicts landing of 23rd Marines at the northern edge of Burlesque Island. Troops advance along a beach. They mop up the area. The troops fire rifles and other guns. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment. Heavy columns of black smoke rise from explosions. Dead bodies of soldiers and rubbled buildings in the area. Wrecked airplanes and other equipment.
A training film on operations of U.S. forces on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II. Animation depicts operations of the 3rd Battalion 23rd Marines to secure islands. Troops advance along a beach. They fire rifles and other guns. Smoke rises from firing and bombing in a rubbled area. Aircraft in flight overhead.
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