Invasion of Iwo Jima in Japan by United States during World War II. A Chaplain conducts a communion aboard a United States attack transport ship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Marines kneeled down as Chaplain gives Eucharist to them. LCPR (Landing Craft, Personnel, Ramped) underway at sea. LCPR comes alongside the attack transport with several men aboard it. Men climb up the Jacob's ladder as they come aboard the ship. A Marine being helped as he comes aboard the transport ship. A man waves signal flag from an attack transport.
United States Army personel during the invasion of Okinawa, Japan by United States in World War 2. Two Army Signal Corps soldiers work on an mobile antenna on a field mobile communications truck aboard a LST (Landing Ship Tank) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Deck of the LST loaded with deck cargo. African American Army personnel aboard ship being given cigarettes. U.S.C.G. sailor, named McGuire, in dungarees seated on back of an LCVP(Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel). Wake made by LCVP with gun shields in the foreground. Soldiers being issued cartons of cigarettes. Bow-on view of LST-674. Starboard view of LST-759. Minesweeper, YMS-478, underway as sailors on the forecastle toss over a line. A movie being transferred to LST from YMS. Men on the forecastle of the minesweeper receive the movie film reels in cases, via over water line transfer.
United States Marines during the invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by United States in World War II. Marines aboard a LST (Landing Ship Tank) as they work on steel frame structures to construct antennas as aircraft warning equipment. Man use a hoist to pull up a part of radar gear onto antennae. Men work on the electronic gear on the deck of LST. Men assemble warning equipment aboard LST. A gunner's mate pass out carbine to Marines. Radar being assembled as men pull up steel frame structures and put them together.
United States Marines in Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. The United States Marines push a field howitzer and attach it to LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) for towing it. The field howitzer attached to LVT. U.S. Marines of the 1st Battalion at a field howitzer as they await orders to fire. The shells being loaded and artillery fired. The gun crew of field howitzer in the gun pit and invasion fleet offshore in the background. Gun emplacements on the beach with guns of the Abel and Baker Batteries. The gun crew in emplacements. Guns being fired as smoke rises.
Surrender of Japanese Sen Toku I-400-class submarines, in the Pacific Ocean at the end of World War II. A U.S. Navy sailor knocks out anchor chain which goes over the side as anchor is being dropped aboard a ship. Japanese submarine I-400 (boat 5231) underway at sea as seen from an approaching tender. The United States flag flies over Japanese flag. The bow of the Japanese submarine with the catapult launching device for aircraft. Japanese crew gathered on the deck of the submarine. The United States and Japanese officers on the conning tower look down at the Japanese crew. The U.S. flag and the black surrender flag on the flag staff aboard the submarine.
Allied prisoners of war after being released, arriving in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. United States sailors wait at a railroad station at Nagasaki as a train pulls in at the platform. Wounded allied soldiers on stretchers being unloaded from the railroad train. A United States Navy medical officer shakes hands with patients in the stretcher as they come off the train. Some released Allied prisoners pass through a coffee line at the station. A prisoner fills his coffee mug and moves away. Prisoners receive coffee and donuts. Litter patients being carried out from the train and taken away. The released prisoners sit and chat. A man with a dog. The released prisoners outside the American Red Cross office at the station. The soldiers drink beer and eat sandwiches.
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