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U.S. submarine, USS Cod (SS-224) rescues crew of Dutch submarine, O-19, aground on Ladd Reef, Spratly Islands, in World War II

View from deck of submarine, USS Cod (SS-224) on her last patrol near the end of World War 2, as she approaches to assist the Dutch submarine O-19, grounded on Ladd Reef, Spratly Islands, in the South China Sea. The O-19 signals with aldis lamp. Small waves can be seen breaking around her on the reef. Crew of the Cod prepare to rescue crew of the O-19. They inflate yellow life rafts. View of the Dutch submarine The USS Cod approaches close in dark blue water. Crew of the Dutch boat seen on her deck in life vests. View of the Dutch boat from starboard, abeam, her bow lifted up on the shoal. Sailors setting explosive charges aboard the O-19, signal to the USS Cod, as she moves away. O-19 crew members seen along with U.S. sailors aboard the USS Cod. Scuttling charges explode on the O-19. Crew member aboard the Cod photographs the event with a small motion picture camera. Crew members perched on the conning tower of the Cod to watch the event. Crew on starboard deck of the Cod. The hulk of O-19 remains on the reef. A U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer patrol aircraft flies overhead.

Date: 1945, July 8
Duration: 5 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076083
Captured Japanese prisoners march and are examined in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

United States Marines Corps in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Dead Japanese soldiers on a beach. U.S. Marines inspect the dead bodies of Japanese soldiers. The Japanese prisoners seated under palm trees in a field. Captured Japanese soldiers behind a fenced area. Japanese prisoners being made to march. A U.S. Navy medical Corpsman examines the prisoners, some of whom look starved, thin and emaciated. A Japanese soldier enters the fenced area. Japanese prisoners seated in a field. One of them smokes a cigarette.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077697
A howitzer and a machine gun are fired in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

An Allied campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. A machine gun on a beach. Soldiers load cartridges and fire the machine gun. The soldiers load shells into a howitzer. The howitzer is fired.

Date: 1945
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077698
A U.S. Marine uses a flame thrower in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

An Allied campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. A United States Marine carries a flame thrower on his back. He uses the flame thrower in an area. The area on fire.

Date: 1945
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077699
A U.S. Marine compares a U.S. and a Japanese rifle in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands during World War II. A United States Marine holds a U.S. and a Japanese rifle and compares them. Bullets of a rifle. A Marine ties a wooden piece on his feet. A Marine climbs up a coconut tree.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077700
Bomb craters being filled up and an airstrip being constructed in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Men in a field as they work to fill bomb crates. A Marine keeps a vigil as he looks through a pair of binoculars. The men fill up bomb craters. A roller levels the earth to make an airstrip. An aircraft comes in for a landing. The aircraft on the strip with the Marines gathered around it. U.S. Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz lands and is greeted by officers.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077701