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Marines land in Saipan, wounded are treated behind the lines during World War 2. June 1944

Recovery of Marine wounded in Saipan during World War II. United States ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during the battle of Saipan. Naval guns aboard the ship bombard the coast. United States troops aboard transport ships. Landing crafts loaded with Marines move towards the shore. Troops land at the coast amidst heavy firing. Medical Company arrives at the beach and looks after the wounded Marines. Marines fire machine gun and tanks roll. Injured Marines on stretchers being carried away. Litter patients being placed into ambulance jeep and carried away. Medical officer examines the wounded and provides first aid to them. Litter patients being placed in a jeep and walking wounded being helped to get into the jeep. Jeep carries the injured Marines to Regimental aid station. Doctor checks the injured Marines and treats them. Tags being prepared for each patient. Records being maintained. Wounded being loaded onto a jeep and the jeep is driven away to a collecting station. At the collecting station Marines at work.

Date: 1944, June 15
Duration: 6 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077536
High speed photography shows fireball formation from nuclear weapon testing.

High speed photography shows structure of a fireball as it forms from a large nuclear explosion, possibly from hydrogen bomb, during the Cold War. Dark clouds of smoke cover test site following explosion. Location likely Bikini Atoll.

Date: 1958
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078696
United States UH-19 helicopter lowers radiation measuring device during Cold War.

A United States Army Sikorsky UH-19 Chickasaw helicopter in flight. A United States soldier lowers a nuclear radiation measuring device from the Sikorsky UH-19 Chickasaw helicopter.

Date: 1958
Duration: 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078697
A U.S. thermonuclear test conducted on the Bikini Atoll

A United States nuclear test conducted on the Bikini Atoll, likely the Cherokee test (the first conducted by the US of an air-dropped thermonuclear weapon). Condensation cloud forms after the detonation of the thermonuclear bomb. The skies become bright upon detonation explosion, before turning into dark. A photographer uses a camera to capture nuclear bomb detonation from an aircraft. View of the Pacific Ocean. Skies over the Pacific Ocean changes from apparently sunny to dark. A large Wilson cloud formation partially obscured by dark clouds. Two men watch the nuclear test detonation from a ship. Bright light obscures clouds after bomb detonation. The skies become darker, with the Wilson cloud becoming more prominent.

Date: 1956
Duration: 7 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079526
United States invasion fleet and Japanese suicide motorboat at Kerama Retto (WW2)

United States fleet of invasion craft sail toward the shore of Kerama Retto during World War 2. United States attack transport ships (APA) sailing toward the beach. A Japanese Shinyo-class suicide motorboat passes by a dock at slow speed. Motorboat underway circling along the beach at Kerama Retto. United States soldier opens the engine cover of a docked suicide motorboat. Soldier uses a screwdriver on Japanese suicide boat’s engine.

Date: 1944, April 5
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079541
Bikini Atoll native men push outrigger in shallow water, loads outrigger in LST

Natives moves a canoe on the beach during the evacuation of Bikini Atoll before U.S. nuclear weapon testing program “Operation Crossroads”. Native man pushes outrigger in shallow water. A naked boy pulls rope from canoe. Native boys pulling a canoe in shallow water. Native men and boys loading outriggers onto LST by means of sling and crane. Crane attempts to lift an outrigger. Outrigger falls back into water. Native men fasten the canoe with ropes. Men jump out of the outrigger while being lifted by a crane from the LST LST (Landing Ship, Tank).

Date: 1946, March 6
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080275