25th Infantry Division soldiers undergo Mines and Booby Trap course at Cu Chi, South Vietnam. Instructor shows students bobby traps. Booby trap is placed on table with 'First In-Last Out' written in the background. Soldiers check equipment. They enter the bobby trap display area. (Vietnam War period).
Board of 'Ritz Jhule Building number 122' at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. Secretory Talbott gives speech on stage. Air Force Personnel seated on ground watch the show in ENT Auditorium. Airmen take pictures and applaud. General LeMay gives a brief speech on stage. Arthur Godfrey speaks to air Force Personnel and entertains them by playing guitar. Jeanette Davis sings on stage. Colonel Bernt Balchen gives a brief speech. Troops in winter clothing exit the auditorium and head toward the Gymnasium.
U.S. 1st Marine Division operations on Peleliu, during World War 2. U.S. F4U Corsair aircraft, flying low and slow, with gear down, drop napalm incendiary bombs on Japanese troops dug in on a ridge. Huge explosions seen. A C-47 transport airplane taxis on airfield. F4U Corsairs are seen parked and tents are pitched nearby.Several C-47s are parked on a ramp. Three F4Us taxi past them headed to the runway. F4Us take off and one is seen bombing Japanese positions on the ridge. Slate notes 1st Marine Division and D+24. Major General William Henry Rupertus,kneels on one knee, in sand, as another officer (shirtless) briefs him. They briefly discuss tactics and then walk away. Marine rifleman firing into burning wreckage of a Japanese position. Marine firing grenade from his rifle. Two Marines stand on beach with LVT (landing vehicle tracked) on the sand, nearby. They point at large ship offshore. Views of the Peleliu beachhead, with numerous ships and landing craft beached, including the second USS Seaward (LST 278) that collided with LST-129 and suffered considerable damage, On October 2, 1944. (LST-129 may be the LST seen next to LST-278.)
Smoke rises from Peleliu Island, Palau during World War 2. View from hunkered down position in landing craft during assault on Japanese held Peleliu island. U.S. Marines move cautiously ashore through barbed wire and other obstacles. Landing craft is struck by enemy gunfire and is engulfed by flames and smoke. Marines lie low and advance under fire in the sand. U.S. Navy Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber seen flying over the beachhead. Marine handles belt of machine gun bullets.
Two wrecked Japanese tanks with smoke rising in the background at Peleliu Island, Palau. Mortar shell explosion and smoke on hill in the background. Phosphorous shell explodes. F4 Corsair fly overhead and drop bombs on the hilly terrain of Island. (World War II period).
Smoke rises from Peleliu Island, Palau. Navy planes bomb the Island. 5th Marine Division troops fire guns aboard ship. (World War II period).
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