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The Guadalcanal campaign in World War II

Major General Alexander Vandegrift, USMC, who, as Commanding General of the 1st Marine Division, also commanded other U.S. military units involved in the invasion of Guadalcanal in World War 2. He discusses those joint U.S. military operations. The U.S. Destroyer, USS Blue (DD-387) seen bombarding Guadalcanal.A B-17 bomber overhead. U.S. Marines decend rope net into landing craft of the attack transport, USS George Clymer (APA-27), later seen with the USS Harry Lee (APA-10) and numerous landing craft around them. A landing craft from the Harry Lee arriving and Marines jumping out. Many U.S. troops wading ashore from landing craft. Troops carrying supplies ashore. Officers salute as American flag is raised on rugged flag pole. Numerous Japanese prisoners of war marching and in outdoor confinement. Japanese prisoners being processed. Japanese soldier using shoe clamps to quickly climb a tall palm tree. Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr.decorating a flyer with the Distinguished Flying Cross. View of the medal.Halsey decorating marines, including Major General Alexander Vandegrift, USMC, seen wearing the Navy Cross. Sign on palm tree reading: "Hospital Station C-1-Med." Wounded inside hospital tent. Troops gathered for religious service. U.S. troops dug in and moving along jungle path. Fallen Japanese soldiers on shore of Guadalcanal.Smoke rising from Japanese bombing of Henderson Field and construction continuing with heavy equipment. A B-17 bomber landing on the field. Names on B-17s at the field, including: "Spook," "Leis-Lady,"and "Boomerang." A Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft taking off from Henderson field. Film concludes with parade of warships and overflight of warplanes (including a biplane).

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021761
Hitler Youth members, old men and women dig trenches on the Russian front during World War II.

Nazi Germany during World War II. Members of the Nazi paramilitary unit Hitler Youth train. An officer blows a whistle and supervizes the exercises. The youth at attention hold flags while they sing an anthem. Hitler Youth march. German troops cycle to the front. Hitler Youth members, old men and women dig trenches on the Russian front. The diggers with tools. An aerial view of the long trench.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021773
Gun camera views from P-47 flown by Captain HL Fogg of U.S. 8th AF, VIII Fighter Command, 359 FG, 368th Fighter Squadron

U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. Gun camera views from 15 April 1944: Captain HL Fogg of the 359th Fighter Group 368th Squadron attacking ground targets, in one of their last combat missions in P-47s. (The unit converted to P-51s in April, 1944.) Captain Fogg strafes a train and an oil well. White smoke arises due to the firing and bombardment. An electric tower. The aircraft in flight over a field.

Date: 1944, April 15
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021812
German coastal guns at English Channel. Bomb damage in German town. Germany Navy in Norway. World War II

German Kriegsmarine Grand Admiral Erich Raeder inspects coastal artillery units along the English Channel during World War 2. He arrives and is greeted by German Naval officers. They study maps on a table. He inspects the guns. A coastal gun raises its barrel, while under a camouglage net. Scene shifts to residents of a German town that had been struck by British RAF bombers. Local residents work to clear up the rubble. Views of bomb-damaged homes, with entire front walls missing. View of damaged kitchen in an apartment. Teams of men working to clear rubble. German children fill a town square to watch the demolition of an unsafe structure. Sign with skull and crossbones next to an unexploded bomb, warning that it is a dud and life threatening. German workers pouring concrete for an airfield. Scene shifts to Kriegsmarine activity in Norway. View of a fjord, and then to many German float planes in a bay near a city. German warships come under attack by British warplanes. German ships antiaircraft guns are brought to bear. German Focke Wulf FW-190 aircraft scrambled to engage the British. Views from German aircraft in flight over the area. Snow covered mountains. View from German ships in the North Atlantic. The German battleship, Gneisenau, underway. Formation of German warships underway. Two German U-boats moving on the surface. A motor torpedo boat. German Stuka, Junkers JU-87 dive bombers, in formation flight. Motor torpedo boat dropping depth charge.

Date: 1941
Duration: 5 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021852
U.S. Army Air Forces light Grasshopper aircraft on a reconnaissance mission on Bougainville during World War II.

U.S. and Japanese forces battle during the Bougainville Campaign of World War II. A U.S. Army Air Forces Grasshopper light aircraft takes off to conduct a reconnaissance mission against Japanase forces who hold part of Bougainville, New Guinea. The aircraft in flight over difficult terrain, flying slowly at tree-top height. The pilot spots Japanese positions and radios the ground forces. U.S. artillery is positioned and fired. They blast revealed Japanese positions. Infantry units land near the Jaba River and progress to clean up isolated Japanese troops. A Grasshopper in flight overhead.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021886
Burmese students learn mortar firing techniques from U.S. and Burmese instructors in Burma during World War II.

U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers train Burmese recruits in Burma during World War II. Burmese students learn mortar firing techniques. The students set up a practice target in a field. They line up. U.S. and Burmese instructors train and supervise the training. They take measurements and plant the assembled bipod at various spots. The students watch and learn as the instructors demonstrate mortar firing. An American instructor load shells, fire the mortar, and takes the post-fire position. Students look through the sight unit, take aim, load shells and fire mortars. One student looks through binoculars. Explosions in the field. The students learn to disassemble the mortar. They pack up the parts and move across the field. The students take down the practice target and wind up.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021897