U.S. Marine Corps following Battle of Tarawa in World War II. Chaplains conduct funeral services aboard a ship. Dead of the United States 2nd Marine Division, covered with United States flag, are buried at sea. Marines fire guns and pay honor to the dead. They salute. Marines cut away clothing and search Japanese prisoners on the Tarawa beach. Prisoners carry their wounded comrade. U.S. marines drink and fill water from containers of captured Japanese water supplies..
Battle of Tarawa in Pacific during World War II. British Vickers coastal guns, captured by the Japanese in Singapore, silenced by U.S. Navy bombardments. Damaged Japanese tank and Command Post.
Bucket cranes and bulldozers remove and clear heaps of dirt for constructing an airstrip. Dump trucks spread sand and road scrapers and steam rollers prepare the ground. U.S. F6F fighter aircraft land on the newly constructed airstrip. Pilot poses with marines of the United States 2nd Marine Division.
Japanese prisoners surrender in Okinawa during the Pacific War of World War II. Japanese soldiers move across river and rugged terrain. Allied soldiers fire artillery and attack Japanese installations. Dead Japanese soldiers on field. Attack on ship underway at sea. Japanese prisoner urges surrender and speaks over microphone. Japanese prisoners surrender.
The oil abatement product on the surface of water with more being sprayed. Crewmen dump bags of the abatement product into the hopper of the machine. Crewmen on the fantail. The product being sprayed on water. Life lines in the foreground. Two men stand by ready to use a flame thrower in an attempt to light the oil. The flame thrower is turned on. It throws flames over the water surface with no effect. Officers and men talk over the fantail of the destroyer. Two crewmen work around gear in card board boxes on the deck. Four crewmen on the deck of USS Compton. A man with a bucket which is used to dump kerosene over side. A man with a bag of the oil abatement product pouring it out over the ship's side. Men pour the product over the side. Military people and civilians near the life lines. Smoke on the water in the background. An officer lights a torch using a piece of wood and throws it over the side to float on water. A flare floats on the surface and burns. The flare burns in the midst of the oil abatement product on the surface with an attempt to set the product on fire along with the oil. An officer throws an object on water. An officer along the deck edge. An orange flare in the hand of an officer. Men on focsle of USS Compton. The flare burns on water as men continue to light the oil abatement product and oil. A man at the deck edge plays a flame thrower down over the water surface. Officers enter. A man holding a flame thrower looks over the side.
U.S. Marines of 2nd Marine Division setting up communications on beachhead of Betio, Tarawa Atoll, on day two of their amphibious assault against Japanese forces there, in World War 2. Individual marines moving low and fast across the sand, as gunfire sounds all around. Casualties being moved on litters. Entire area under fire with destruction everywhere. Marines taking cover wherever possible. Some firing machine gun from sandbagged position. Area covered by smoke from gunfire and explosions. Marines shielded by remains of Japanese structures as they move about, engaged in fierce fire fights. More wounded being tended. Marines using hand grenades and flame throwers against Japanese soldiers in fortified positions. Marines moving carefully across series of Japanese positions, checking for remaining Japanese defenders. Several move against a Japanese position in a hill, using small arms hand grenades and flame thrower. Many dead Japanese soldiers are seen on the other side of the hill, after it is taken. Marine carrying a machine gun and setting it up. An ambulatory wounded marine.
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