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U.S. soldiers unloading equipment from a landing craft and working on a field in the Solomon Islands.

United States troops in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Tactical maneuver of bypassing some Japanese held islands and advancing to more strategic positions is explained. Trucks and jeeps parked on an island. Soldiers aboard vehicles board a landing craft. An officer instructing a group of soldiers. The soldiers aboard the landing craft underway at sea. A barrage balloon in flight overhead. The soldiers look for enemy airplanes. The landing craft underway at sea. The soldiers unloading equipment from the landing craft at an island. Soldiers working with picks and shovels on a field.

Location: Solomon Islands
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076657
U.S. forces capture Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, from Japanese forces. Sea Bees repair captured airfield. during World War II.

The Battle of Tarawa between U.S. and Japanese forces during World War 2. U.S. Task Force ships head for Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. U.S. officers confer aboard a ship. A stick points out the location of Tarawa on a map of the Pacific Ocean. U.S. soldiers bow their heads in prayers aboard the ship. U.S. naval guns are fired at coastal targets. U.S. Marines in landing crafts head for Tarawa. Smoke rises from artillery shell attacks on the island. The Marines use hand grenades to destroy Japanese pillboxes and machine gun nests. Reinforcements arrive and U.S. Marines advance inland after heavy fighting. Abandoned coastal artillery guns and dead Japanese soldiers on the island. The island after the battle. Forced Korean laborers on the island. A U.S. medic giving first aid to a Korean laborer. U.S. Navy CBs (Construction Battalion) make repairs and construct an airstrip on Tarawa.

Location: Tarawa Gilbert Islands
Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073829
American outpost built at the Enewetak Atoll in Marshall Islands for atomic testing.

Covers events relating to the Operation Greenhouse atomic tests. Shows U.S. troops and men at an American outpost at Enewetak Atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) in Marshall Islands. A water pumping station on the island. Boats and small planes provide transport facility on the island. The test island serve as a learning ground to U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force. Tanks fitted with measuring instruments are stationed near the Zero Tower to measure the radioactivity ,heat and pressure generated at the time of blast. Reinforced concrete buildings are build to withstand the atomic blast. Test objects like an airplane wing and fuselage section are positioned to study the effect of blast on them. U.S. parachute troopers stand beside a transport plane. Commander and his crew at the Joint Task Headquarters in Perry Islands,USA, make final decisions before the atomic test on Enewetak. Unmanned B-17s and fighter jets take off at night to collect valuable information during the blast. View of the atomic bomb explosion and its effect on the buildings at the test island.

Location: Enewetak Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1951
Duration: 5 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028990
U.S. aircraft take off and U.S. Army officers in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

The Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II. A map shows the Aleutian Islands situated in the North Pacific Ocean forming the southern boundary of the Bering Sea. Volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands. The rocky coast of the island. A man stands on an ice covered ship. A boat carries some people. An aircraft lands on sea. A ship in the rough seas. In 1942: Animated map depicts Japanese invasion of Midway Island and Dutch Harbor and U.S. response to the attack. U.S. Army Air Force PBY Catalina flying boat aircraft takes off. U.S. Army officers who participated in the Battle of Dutch Harbor include Lieutenants Charles H. Briggs, Jack Todd, Jep C, Jonson, James E. Breeding, Virgil Alleman and Jack S. Marks. Active volcanoes in the background. Army camps in the Aleutian Islands.

Location: Aleutian Islands Alaska USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057596
New York Harbor, Liberty Island, and views of Manhattan Island, New York City in the United States

View of New York City skyline in the United States. Statue of Liberty situated on Liberty Island. Cruise ships, ferry boats and sail boats are seen moving near the statue and near lower Manhattan. Some of the scenes appear to be dawn or dusk with the city skyline more dark.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030573
A New York City Police airplane in flight over Liberty Island. New York Harbor, Manhattan Island, as seen from another aircraft

Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in Upper New York Bay. Aerial view of ships in New York Harbor. An airplane in flight. Airplane is flying over the New York Bay and the skyscrapers and tall buildings of the Manhattan skyline. Aerial view of New York harbor. 'Police' can be seen written on the aircraft.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1939, October
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032800
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