A view of the waterfront in Juneau, Alaska. Buildings along the coast with mountains in the background. A ship anchored at the harbor.
Allied landings at Omaha beach in Normandy, France during World War II. Litter basket being lowered aboard Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) from a ship underway at sea. Injured soldier lying in the LCVP. Wounded soldier being placed in a basket and being raised to the ship. Soldiers climb down the landing net and get into a Landing Craft Mechanized.
A U.S. Destroyer during Operation Shingle (Allied invasion of Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. Opening scene shows a U.S. Mahan Dunlap Class destroyer anchored near the camera ship. View on lower deck of camera ship ( a U.S. Destroyer) shows netting containing spent naval gun shell casings. Upper deck of the Destroyer showing stowed inflated rubber rafts, A davit for launching boats, and some boats stored on the deck. Crew members in battle gear including steel helmets. Some of the Destroyer's guns in the background. The guns fire and create smoke clouds. View from underneath a gun. Sailors are seen in a boat suspended from a davit. They descend a rope ladder to the Destroyer deck. Next, a boat is seen heading away from the ship, with 4 sailors in it. View from bridge of American flag flying low over ship's gun position. Boat underway in the water.
Operation Shingle (invasion of Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. View from underneath a gun position aboard a U.S. Destroyer in an invasion convoy of Operation Shingle (Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. Camera pans underneath multiple torpedo tubes. Officer in battle gear looks toward the sky with binoculars. One of the Destroyer's guns fires. View down from upper deck shows many expended naval gun shell casings on main deck. Small boats seen in far distance. Several landing craft seen closer in a line followed by a Destroyer Escort. The destroyer's guns firing and raising clouds of smoke. More views of spent shell casings on deck. Sailors in combat gear and life preservers taking a nap on deck. Sailors examining some of the spent shell casings. Camera pans up to the Destroyer's bridge, showing a gun and American flag flying just above it. Large group of sailors looking over the piles of spent shell casings on the deck. A Mahan Dunlop Class destroyer seen nearby. Sailors looking through binoculars. Glimpse of enemy aircraft maneuvering high overhead.Glimpse of Anzio shoreline in distance.
Activities of the U.S. Army Air Corps at Langley Field, Virginia. Two armament men sliding 300 lb bombs across ground and under a B-10. Two officers look on, a second B-10 parked in the background. Group of civilians seated on bleachers. Formation of six P-6Es in flight. Frame house in the foreground. Bullets hitting practice targets on ground. Several boats in water in the foreground. B-10s flying in formation. Aircraft dropping bombs. Six 300 lb bombs descending. Train of bombs exploding in field. Smoke and dust from exploding bombs. Small motor-powered launch anchored in water in the foreground.
The battle of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Telephone talker on the battlefield. Japanese personnel on stretcher and being loaded in the ambulance. Soldiers at the Red Beach, Iwo Jima. Personnel swap American shoes for Japanese shoes on the beach. Japanese howitzer cannon gun emplacement on the beach.
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