U.S. Marine Corps struggle during Battle of Tarawa, in the Pacific, during World War II. Marines of the United States 2nd Marine Division Corps move carefully and stay low as they advance on the island and fire at Japanese well-entrenched in bunkers and hiding in trees.Marines employ grenades, flame throwers and mortars against the Japanese and occupy some Japanese bunkers. Marine casualties being carried on stretchers. Several Japanese soldiers break out of their fortification and run for safety as marines fire at them. Marines check for snipers and throw grenades, as they advance very cautiously toward abandoned Japanese positions on the Tarawa beach.
U.S. Army Air Forces bombers and airmen on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers and trucks parked on a strip. Framework of the hangar. Motor of an aircraft. Two members of crew prepare elevator control of B-24. Reparation of Carney Airstrip in progress. A truck pulls landing strip mats on trailer. A bulldozer in operation. A stationary B-24 in the background. The bulldozer pushes a pile of landing mats. Caterpillar, scraper and power shovel work. A pile of discarded mesh landing mats.
U.S. Army airmen on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. EMs (Enlisted Men) stand in four columns. Commander of U.S. 13th Air Force General Nathan Twining and officers stand. General Twining reads speech. General Twining pins medal on Sergeant Myers and shakes hands with him. They both salute.
U.S. soldiers board landing crafts off the coast of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Anchor is lowered into water from ship. Winch chain as anchor is lowered. Infantrymen embark on LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from transport in staging area. Infantrymen go over side of ships and climb down landing nets.
U.S. troop transports off the coast of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Soldiers stand in a mess line aboard troop transport. Soldiers aboard landing craft alongside transport.
A U.S. cemetery on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Grave markers on crosses. Stars of David. A man prays.
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