United States Marines Corps on their way to invade the Japanese held Solomon Islands during World War II. A mail ship arrives and the Marines on the deck of the ship. U.S. Navy F4U Corsair aircraft in flight. Patrol boats underway. Marines on the bridge aboard a ship. The Marines climb down a landing net and come aboard a landing craft alongside the ship. Naval guns bombard Solomon coast. Landing crafts pull away. An aircraft in flight. Smoke rises from the coast due to bombarding. The landing crafts head towards a beach. Crafts arrive at the coast. Men put sand bags around a gun emplacement on the beach. A sign in Japanese. The United States flag being raised on the island.
United States Army Air Force at their base in the Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. Flattened tire of a B-29 bomber. Crewmen working to mend a flatted tire. A vehicle drags the plane on blocks of concrete. Crewmen remove tire from its shaft. They roll the tire for mending. Working on a flattened tire.
United States Army Air Force at their base in the Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. A wall of boulders near the base camp. Crew members load an amphibious truck with their baggage. Crewmen stand over the truck. As the truck gets fully loaded, it drives up.
U.S. 4th Marine Division in Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. A Marine speaks into a microphone, telling the Japanese to come out of hills and caves. Other Marines standing around. Marines talk to Japanese prisoners. The Marine speaks into the microphone. A loudspeaker mounted on a jeep. Marines in the background. Hills in the far background. Troops advance towards the hills. Marines and tank advance through heavy underbrush.
U.S. 4th Marine Division in Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. Japanese civilians who surrendered seated on the side of a hill. Ocean in the background. Civilian prisoners including women and children walk up the side of the hill under the guard of the Marines. A Japanese prisoner comes up the hill. A Marine searches the prisoner. A Japanese prisoner and a Marine walk up the hill towards other marines. A Marine searches the prisoner. A prisoner walks up the hill. Two Marines frisk a Japanese prisoner.
U.S. 4th Marine Division in Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. A group of Japanese civilian prisoners walk up the side of a hill towards a cliff. Ocean in the background. The prisoners walk towards a Marine. A group of Japanese civilian prisoners coming up the hill. The prisoners with their hands raised. A Marine searches them. A tank rolls past downhill.
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