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Marines establish beachhead on Roi-Namur, Marshall Islands during Pacific Campaign against Japanese in World War 2

U.S. 4th Division Marines assault Roi-Namur in Marshall Islands and establish beachhead. Ruins of building on Roi-Namur, Marshall Islands. Wreckage of Japanese G4M plane on airfield. Two marines walk around. Wing of fighter aircraft on airfield. Marines in beachhead area. American flag on coconut tree stub. Fire burns amid coconut trees. Marines in foxholes and taking cover in a ravine. Marines lie in sand under fire. Marines exit ravine and run across knoll during battle. Aircraft overhead. Red ball insignia on side of wrecked Japanese plane. Fire burn amid coconut trees. Marines carry boxes. Troops off load from LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel). Black smoke rises from explosion. Marines on beachhead as supplies are landed. Beach control flags visible.

Date: 1944, February 1
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052298
U.S. Air Force C-130 airplanes transporting Belgian troops to Congo, via Ascension Island.

A U.S. Air Force C-13OE plane lands at Ascension Island. Belgian soldiers get off the plane and unload their personal equipment and prepare to rest as they proceed to Congo via Ascension Island. Two more C-130s arrive with Belgian troops. U.S. Air force ground crew directs one to parking spot and chocks aircraft wheels as engines are shut down. Fuel truck is seen near a C-130.

Date: 1964, November 18
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058329
U.S. Army Air Forces B-17s on Midway island after Japanese fleet is sighted during World War II.

U.S. patrol plane from Midway Island sights a Japanese fleet during World War 2. One of a newly arrived B-17E bombers parked on ramp at Henderson Field, Midway Island. Group of U.S. airmen discussing plans. Several B-17 aircraft seen, including one in sand-bagged revetment. Ground and aircrews prepare B-17Es for a mission. Views of a B-17 crew member's family back home. His father, a railroad engineer poses in front of his Ironton Railroad steam locomotive in Pennsylvania, United States. His mother sits, knitting and his sister is seen speaking on the telephone. B-17E number, 41-2437, taxiing, unusually, using numbers 2 and 4 engines. B-17Es taking off on a Battle of Midway mission, including aircraft numbers: 41-2524, 41-2611( of the 31st Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group), 41-2532, 41-2437(of the 98th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group). Tail of parked B-17E number 41-2648 clearly seen in one scene.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063018
Different species of birds on Ascension Island seen as Ernest Shackleton's ship, The Quest, is returning to Antarctica

Film of the Quest's return journey, 8 months after the death of SIr Ernest Shackleton at South Georgia, Antarctica (on January 3, 1922). The expedition has stopped at Ascension Island en route to Antarctica. On 4th August, the expedition's naturalist George Hubert Wilkins, together with Major C. A. Tennyson (Commandant of the Ascension Island Garrison), explores a colony of sooty terns (also known as Wideawakes).

Date: 1922, August 4
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065872
U.S. Marines fire guns, blow a cave, and captured Japanese troops walk on the Palau Island during the Invasion of Philippines.

U.S. Marines capture Palau Island during World War II. U.S. Marines advance on the Palau Island. The Marines fire guns. Smoke rises in the background. The Marines load guns and fire the gun. Shells kept in the background. The Marines get off from the landing crafts. The marines fire. A Marine sprays liquid fire in a Japanese foxhole. The Japanese troop runs. The U.S. Marines shoot the troops. The dead Japanese troop. The Marines fire and advance. The Marines blow up a cave. The captured Japanese soldiers walk with their hands up.

Date: 1944, November 2
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069632
A submarine at sea and a rescue launch surfaces and picks up an injured man off the coast of the Bermuda Islands.

A film depicts safety measures of the United States Army Air Force on the Bermuda Islands. A submarine at sea off the coast of the Bermuda Islands. Printing by a printing machine in a flight control tower. A motor car moves on an air base. The submarine underway at sea. A rescue launch in the foreground. The rescue launch surfaces and picks up an injured man.

Date: 1947
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070544