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Activities of 3rd Marine Division on Iwo Jima, Japan.

Bombardment by U.S. 3rd Marine Division on Iwo Jima. Smoke rises and fire burns on the island. Mount Suribachi in the background. An invasion craft comes ashore. A U.S. Hospital ship and a small craft in the foreground. Coastline of Iwo Jima. Marine supplies are loaded from attack transport into medium landing ship along the side. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, March 1
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046459
USS Logan (APA-196) with damaged bow, hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5) and other ships at the beach line of Iwo Jima, Japan

D-Day on Iwo Jima, Japan. Bombardment by U.S. 3rd Marine Division on the island. Damaged bow of USS Logan (APA-196) following collision with USS Napa (APA-157). Hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5) underway. Ships at the beach line. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, February
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046461
A United States destroyers pulls alongside USS Bayfield at bay of Iwo Jima, Japan.

D-Day on Iwo Jima, Japan. Beach area of Iwo Jima. U.S. destroyer pulls away from USS Bayfield. A convoy of ships in the background. Destroyer pulls alongside USS Bayfield. Beach activity on the island. A caterpillar underway. Landing Ship Tanks (LST) on beach.

Date: 1945, February 23
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046467
Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Marshal Joseph Stalin meet at Crimea for the Yalta Conference

Allied Conference in Yalta, Crimea in Ukraine on coast of the Black Sea. The British, Russian and United States representatives meet to plan the political future of Europe after World War II. Livadia Palace, the summer residence of former Czar Nicolas II. Special communication lines are strung. Soviet Foreign Secretary Vyacheslav Molotov waits at air base for the British and U.S. delegations. Soldiers march in a field. Flags of Russia, Britain and U.S. Plane arrives at base. British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Adviser to President Roosevelt Harry Hopkins and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, W.Averell Harriman arrive. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrive by plane. Lavadia Castle at the island. Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston Churchill arrives by car with President Roosevelt's daughter Anna Roosevelt. Prime Minister of Soviet Union Marshal Joseph Stalin arrives. They discuss military and political postwar plans. They make decisions regarding postwar Germany. Family members of Allied officers visit the Palace. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin seated for a photograph.

Date: 1945, February 4
Duration: 6 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046519
A Mark 25 Aerial mine is loaded on a B-29 bomber in the United States and dropped on an enemy target in Japan.

Dropping of a Mark 25 Aerial mine in Japan. 21st Bomber Command base at an island in the United States. The Mark 25 mine at the base. Hydro static devices, an extender and a clock delay mechanism. Mines loaded onto B-29 planes. They are dumped on trailers and a parachute is attached to after end. Explosive charge, the extender and the clock mechanism are put in a safety lock. A water soluble washer is attached. An officer specify an enemy area on a map. Group commanders are briefed. A B-29 plane takes off. The bombing door opens on the target. The mine is dropped. The parachute opens. The mine drops in water. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046552
Shows the importance and application of camouflage techniques during combat in World War 2.

A film 'Camouflage in Combat' underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. The film shows U.S. soldiers going into a theater in the United States and watching a movie 'Camouflage'. The movie shows a soldier in a forest. He is shot down. A soldier approaches him. He looks skywards. He applies mud on his face to camouflage himself. Soldiers paint each other's faces with GI paint. On 5th June 1944, fully camouflaged Airborne and pathfinder U.S. paratroopers preparing for D-Day invasion jump over Normandy, France. Soldiers with camouflaged helmets. A soldier camouflages his helmet with grass and twigs. A soldier on an island with his helmet camouflaged with grass and twigs found in the area which gives him a perfect blend. U.S. soldiers with camouflaged helmets in France. A camouflaged tank rolls. An officer inspects soldiers standing in a line. Their helmets are camouflaged. A U.S. soldier hiding in shadows in Casino, Italy fires his gun. His ring sparkles. A soldier in a prone position fires. A New Zealand soldier fires while in shadows.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050679