Activities of U.S. Marines on Tarawa in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A man stands near the entrance to a Japanese pillbox. The damaged Japanese pillbox. Dead bodies of marines lying on the beach. Dead bodies lying near a damaged LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel). Other dead marine lying on barbed wires. A damaged LCVP in the background. Two airplanes in flight overhead. The marines look at damaged tanks. An arm of a dead marine. The marines dig out a tank from the beach.
Activities of U.S. Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. The marines fire machine guns at a ridge in the background. Other marines fire at a hill under the cover of a tank. Some of them fire guns across railroad tracks. They use a tank for cover. A large hill in the background. A man fires a machine gun. Another man throws a hand grenade into a cave. The marines advance across an open terrain towards a hill in the background. Smoke rises in the background. A marine carries a child in his arms.
Activities of U.S. Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. A marine fixes wounds on a Japanese prisoner. Other marines gathered around the Japanese prisoner. A tank in the background. Men advance along railroad tracks. An airplane in flight overhead. A man talks over a walkie-talkie. Men with rifles in the background. A man advances across a field. Fire and smoke rise from a hill in the background. Cliffs near Garapan. A machine gun crew keeps a lookout near the cliffs. A man talks over a walkie-talkie. A man armed with a carbine directs the troops along the railroad tracks. The marines advance along the railroad tracks. Dead Japanese at the side of the tracks.
Activities of U.S. Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. The marines move along a road. Trees on both sides of the road. A tank goes down hill on a dirt road. An ocean in the background. Smoke from an explosion in the background. Men following the tank. The marines move through a dense jungle. A man uses a flamethrower on dense undergrowth. Smoke rises. Men in a half track tank fire at the front. The half track tank in the middle of a field.
Recruitment of new Navy personnel in a Navy Department building in San Francisco, California. Men gather outside the building. They enter and leave the building. Sign boards outside the building read: "Let's Go Why Wait" and "Arise Americans" encouraging men to enlist in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. A board outside the entrance of the building reads: 'US Navy recruiting'. Military representative seated at a desk inside the building. New recruits gather inside the building and wait in a queue to give their applications to be recruited for posts.
US Navy ceremony handing over older submarines, early in World War 2 to the British Navy and Polish Navy, in New London, Connecticut. U.S. Navy officer reads a document as sailor stand and watch. U.S. Navy officers and sailors leave submarine and walk onto dock. British sailors take possession of the submarine. British officers conduct review of sailors on the submarine. Polish flag raised on another submarine as personnel salute. A sailor raises a ribbon flag on the conning tower. A Polish Navy sailor holds the flag of Poland on the submarine deck. An officer near a deck gun.
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