U.S. 81st Division, 323 Infantry Regiment troops at Ulithi Atoll in Caroline Island during World War II. U.S. 81st Division on Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) land ashore the atoll. The soldiers advance on a beach. The soldiers on a LVT ashore the beach. Insignia of the United States on the LVT. The LVTs on the beach. The soldiers cautiously advance across atoll. The troops carrying guns advance through bushes and tress. The troops look at their enemies and advance from between the heavy bushes. A close up of a soldier with a gun behind a tree. The troops advance on the atoll. The troops advancing cautiously. The wrecked equipment on the atoll. The troops look at the wreckage. A damaged concrete wall in the foreground.
Mock up of a USAAF (United States Army Air Forces ) B-29 Stratofortress aircraft developed as the Boeing Stratocruiser, a future aircraft, in Seattle, Washington. The Stratocruiser plane in a hangar. Passengers board the Stratocruiser and are seated inside. A man plates food in the galley. A stewardess serves food to the passengers. Passengers descend down spiral staircase to the lounge area. A flight attendant serves drinks and cocktails to the passengers seated in the lounge. A woman enters a washroom in the Stratocruiser. She looks into a mirror as she combs her hair and grooms herself.
Italian refugees from Anzio in Naples, Italy during World War II. Italian refugees stand in rain. U.S. and British Military Policemen talk standing in the rain. Few Italian refugees hold umbrellas while standing. The refugees broad a truck under the direction of U.S. and British Military Policemen. The evacuees move onto trucks. Insignia of the United States on the truck. A jeep drives on a road. Some refugees still wait in rain to board a truck. An Italian woman holds a small boy. A man holds a child and plays with the child.
P-51s bought with war bonds in the European Theater during World War II. Three United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) P-51 Mustang fighter airplanes bought with war bonds parked at an airfield. An MP (Military Police) guard works on the nose of a P-51. Another MP walks up to a P-51. 'Pride Of The Yanks' and 'Maisie R' written on P-51s. The MP puts his hand on the nose of the aircraft. The MP standing on a wing of the aircraft shakes hands with a pilot. He gets down the wing. A MP guard stands beside the wing of a P-51 and salutes. A pilot walks up to him and shakes hands with him.
The Battle of Okinawa in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A group of U.S. Marines at a command post looks at a chart of a combat area. A Marine looking through a binocular. Another Marine stands holding the binocular and other stand behind him. U.S. Marines in a foxhole. A Marine in a partial foxhole with a mortar. The Marines in a trench look out over an open valley with binoculars. Smoke columns rise in a distance due to mortar fire. Marine communications squad lays telephone wires toward advance position. The Marines laying the wires. A group of Marines seated discuss and one of them puts on a mask. The Marine advance. A Marine carries mortar parts on his shoulders. A USMC (United States Marine Corps) sniper with a telescopic lens on a rifle shoots across the valley. The Mortar Squad firing. Phosphorous smoke shells hit the ground in the open valley and lay a smoke screen. A Marine speaks over a telephone and another smokes a cigar.
Allied bombing in northwest Germany during World War II. Several U.S. aircraft on an airfield in Britain. A United States Army Air Force heavy bomber B-17 Flying Fortress taxis and takes off from a runway. Several bomber aircraft in flight. USAAF fighter aircraft P-38 Lightnings taking off from the airfield. Allied soldiers looking at the aircraft. The P-38s in flight. A USAAF fighter aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt takes off from the runway. Four P-47s in a formation flight. View of the P-38s and the B-17s in flight over target areas in northwest Germany. British bomber aircraft in flight. A pilot in a cockpit. View of the naval base which is a major target area. A large explosion on the ship building center at the naval base. Thick smoke rises from the explosions. Several aircraft in flight. B-17s in flight. Officers standing at the railing of a ship. A pilot getting out of a damaged U.S. aircraft which managed to land on an airfield. Soldiers standing beside the aircraft.
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